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From: brunson@usfbobo.UUCP (%David Brunson)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Absurdity Revisited: A Perfect Example
Message-ID: <146@usfbobo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 03:40:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 03:40:35 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 03:37:59 EDT
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I just received the following mail in response to the "Absurdity
and Unbelief" article.


>You believe what you've been told to believe (e.g., the Bible).
>You reject what you've been told to reject (e.g., lesbianism).
>So, how can you claim to think for yourself?

>I'm not knocking Christianity.  I know many thinking Christians.
>You just don't happen to be one of them.

Like water off a duck's back.  I hold nothing but contempt for
the dismal *poverty* of values demonstrated here.  The ultimate
secularist retort: "You are not intelligent."  Weak.

This is a perfect example of secularist absurdity.  The writer
would not have thought it a reproof to convict me of some evil.
"Oh, so you condone abortion" or, "I suppose you are also a
fornicator, sir!" will not shame the modern apostate.  Oh, but
comment on his spelling! or his misuse of a word! or his
programming style! or any of the other things that have become
sin in this age of folly, and you will have an enemy for life!!

There is another shade of meaning to the use of the word "thinking"
as used in the above excerpt.  This is the modern notion of
*open-mindedness*.  "All beliefs are equally valid."  The song
of fools.  Again a dismal *poverty* of values.  I can abort
fetuses for a living, I can be a flaming homosexual and influence
others to do likewise, I can produce songs and films that encourage
lifestyles ruinous to those that adopt them; but if I so much
as *question* the prudence of these activities (let alone *mock*
them), then I have violated the Secularist Ten Commandments
and must bear my reproach before the "thinkers".

Lou Grant is alive and kicking on the USENET!

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David Brunson
duke!ucf-cs!usfbobo!brunson

"Why do the heathen rage? and the
people imagine a vain thing?" [Psalms]