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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion
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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (396)8/30/2005 1:12:25 PM
From: Greg or e  Read Replies (2) of 520
 
So far you have posted nothing but unsubstantiated assertions, so "continuing" is a misnomer since you never really started. All you have posted so far is a passing reference to Northrup Fry. You keep saying you have sources but they never materialize so they can be evaluated on the strength of their arguments. That tells me you either don't have them or are embarrassed to produce them. Which is it?

"any rebuttal I post will be labeled "pseudo-scholarship " or some other pejorative term."

When it comes to the black art of literary criticism the term
"pseudo-scholarship" is completely appropriate. True scholarship deals with verifiable methodology. Literary criticism is a thoroughly discredited method that portrays imaginative speculations as assured facts. It is completely unverifiable and therefore next to useless.

You seem to want to use pejorative terms like literalist and fundamentalists but then take exception to it when the shoe is on the other foot. If you want to call me a fundamentalist or a literalist do I not have the right to refer to your position as liberal and unrealistic?


I stand by my statements about the United Church. Look up what Bill Phips said to the Ottawa Citizen a few years back in which he denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ outright. Then afterward, he backtracked and started talking about the risen Jesus who lives in his heart. He does not believe what is an essential doctrine of Christianity but he wants to keep the "reverend" title. I can respect an honest Agnostic or even Atheist but false wolves who dress themselves in priestly robes are the wost sort of hypocrites I can imagine. The United Churches articles of faith are for the most part orthodox, it's just that the leadership does not believe, or follow them. They should be honest and leave if they had any integrity.

I don't know your Father in Law, but I do know the United Church. It has become an apostate non-Christian organization masquerading as a Church.
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