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To: maceng2 who wrote (23808)10/3/2002 8:05:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
PB, I read through some of the paean to mysticism. There are not a lot of things which I find pure drivel, but that's what I read.

Which I know is not a very good critique, but it's all the effort I can be bothered allocating to it.

The essential point not to lose is that many people can know something in science from their own observation. In mysticism, it's a secret club for the anointed. How do we know it's the word of Big Santa? Just trust the people who tell you to trust them - you can't check it for yourself. In science, you can check for yourself whether something is true or not. You don't need to trust anybody's reporting.

What is fascinating is how religious wackoes cannot reason. They slide sideways and always end up in the only place they can, which is that you just have to have faith. Faith in them, because they are better than you and they have got 'the word'. Which is hilarious because there are so many brands, all claiming to have the almighty word, which not surprisingly, are mutually exclusive. Send money and get The Word. Preferably send girls too [or altar boys in the case of Catholic priests - let's face it, you have to be at least moderately suspicious of sworn-to-celibacy men who wear ladies' clothes, silly hats and wave smoke around over dead people and sprinkle babies' heads with water].

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