gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP (Noh Pindmietrs) (10/03/86)
<660@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> gary@sphinx.UUCP (Gary Buchholz) writes: >You, Mr Dubuc, have chained >yourself to that dead old tree of Christian orthodoxy, and in time, >secular theology under the orders of the Western intellectual tradition, >in the service of "intellectual integrity", will come with the buzzsaw >and take care of you and the dead old tree in one fell swoop. O brave new world, that has such persons in it. -- A man walks down a street/it's a street in a strange world/maybe it's the third world/maybe it's his first time around/doesn't speak the language/ he holds no currency/he is a foreign man/he is surrounded by the sound/ cattle in the marketplace/scatterlings and orphanages/he looks around/he sees angels in the architecture/spinning in infinity/he says amen,he says hallelujah. Gregory Taylor/Astronautics/{wherever}!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor
mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) (10/06/86)
In article <576@astroatc.UUCP> gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP (Noh Pindmietrs) writes: > O brave new world, that has such persons [Gary Buchholz] in it. Oh sorry old world, that has such persons as prefer tattered literary allusions to thoughtful argument. There are perhaps 10 contributors to *.religion.* whose articles strike me as penetrating. (At least two of them are Christian.) Gary is perhaps the most erudite of that bunch. Most other contributors repeat tired, old errors that are generally scoffed at in intellectual circles. Or worse, resort to no content but derision, as in the above statement. -- "The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction." Bertrand Russell in "Skeptical Essays". -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh