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From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Another flame from greg
Keywords: Them damned infinities: works of the devil to confuse us all!
Message-ID: <694@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 17:35:51 GMT
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In article <4579@uwmcsd1.UUCP> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
}In article <1805@mind.UUCP> greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) writes:
}}In article <24268@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes:
}}}In article <264@pedsga.UUCP> lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ellis) writes:
}}}}}The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make
}}}}}empty prophecies.  The danger already exists that the mathematicians have
}}}}}made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in
}}}}}the bonds of Hell ...	    --Saint Augustine	   (heh heh heh)
}}}
}}}I bet he was being prophetic about Georg Cantor.
}}
}}How times change. Hilbert said Cantor gave us Paradise.
}
}One thing confuses me: I thought the Devil was Christian.

Based on his deeds or his professed beliefs?