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From: dk@browngr.UUCP (David Kantrowitz)
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Subject: Re: Ignoring the "voices of Heaven"
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 18:42:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 18:42:20 1984
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> ... Therefore even if a person can claim "may this river reverse its course
> if I am right!", it is still better for a group to base its decision on
> rational argument.

Let me throw a hammer into the works:

The principal of not believing miracles derives from the Torah, which we
accept as authoritative because it was God-given.  This we believe because
of the miracles associated with the Torah's arrival.

So rational argument alone seems as if it will get you nothing in the end,
because you start with nothing.  Comments?

Corollary:  Would those people who insist on proving everything with rational
objective arguments, and refuse to take anything on faith, be even slightly
convinced by a large miracle?