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We Bow To Your Superior (?) Intellect, O Wise One!

"Religions share with those beliefs the property of being factually false, and of defining a sub-culture of uncritical believers."

Oh? That's news to me -- a practicing Roman Catholic (who used to be an agnostic) who holds a doctorate in astrophysics.

The arrogance with which atheists approach religious conviction amazes me. You can no more prove your convictions than I can prove mine. Neither of us can disprove the other's creed, either. That's in the nature of religious belief, which occupies the realm of things which can neither be proved nor disproved on this side of the grave. Yet you find it perfectly acceptable to deride my convictions, and me for holding them, even so.

There's a quality called "humility," and another called "tact." Over the centuries they've proved both useful and attractive. Verbum sat sapienti.

Curmudgeon Emeritus, Palace Of Reason

by fporretto on Tue, 07/01/2003 - 20:56

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