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Subject: Re: God, Reagan and women
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 15:24:34 EDT
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> [Robert Perlberg]
> Your logic is wrong.
> 
> Jeff's logic:
> 
> If God is personal, he has love, etc.
> God is not personal
> therefore, God does not have love.
> 
> Comparable example:
> 
> All women breath.
> Ronald Reagan is not a woman.
> therefore, Ronald Reagan does not breath.

Not comparable.  Jeff is assuming that love is an attribute of,
and only of, personal beings.  If a being is not personal, it
has (or is) none of the attributes of and only of personal beings.
Breathing is not an attribute of and only of women, hence the
examples are not comparable.

Of course, if you do not share the assumption regarding love
and personality, the examples are comparable.  Personally, I
think it is correct, but perhaps you can offer a counterexample?
-- 

Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
						Colossians 1:17