kenn@sdccsu3.UUCP (05/02/84)
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From: ..bbncca!sdyer (Steve Dyer)
> ... those who do not recognize the teaching authority of the Church.
How about those who are strong enough to form their own system of values,
rather than accepting on blind faith a popular attitude?
Seriously though, we can't argue with those we cannot communicate. People
run around blindly following the teachings of the bible, and every arguement
against it is invalid "because it is so." I am not so much against religion
if the people involved also think for themselves, but too many will take
everything from the church as their own and pretty much blindly follow it.
Blind thinking is a form of prejudice -- a preset of opinions about a subject
without even truly evaluating it to it's fullest. Those of you who are
fighting abortion because "it is murder", how far have you explored in your
thinking? Most people will get rather annoyed if they are rejected because of
some creed or rumor or irrevelant past experience, ie prejudice of one form
or another. What makes you think you can do that to arguements of abortion?
Kenn the Kenf
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...!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!kenndyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) (05/03/84)
>>From: ..bbncca!sdyer (Steve Dyer) >> >> ... those who do not recognize the teaching authority of the Church. >> >How about those who are strong enough to form their own system of values, >rather than accepting on blind faith a popular attitude? > >Seriously though, we can't argue with those we cannot communicate. People >run around blindly following the teachings of the bible, and every arguement >against it is invalid "because it is so." I am not so much against religion >... blather blather ... This kind of mindless knee-jerk response (one is tempted to classify it as "spinal" rather than "cortical") is typical of what I have seen from Kenn in his earlier responses on this newsgroup. Please read my article again-- it was making one point and one point only--that those who don't accept on faith what the Church teaches aren't going to be convinced by arguments based on said faith. My quote above is completely declarative. Instead, this guy is all ready to make an attack on organized religion and those who choose to follow it. Well, that's great, but keep it in net.religion, and keep me out of it--I'm not interested. -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca