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To: skinowski who wrote (235394)1/21/2008 9:27:21 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 793958
 
I decided to send a link to that post to an old personal friend who just published a book on this subject:

amazon.com

This is his reply (to the post):

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Subject: RE: What do you think?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:16:26 +0000

Hi Anatole,
Thanks. Who knew that you were a theologian! ;-) Interesting post. One objection to it, however,is that knowers are also believers. A more serious one is that the same argument, which on first reading does have a certain laissez-faire libertarian appeal, seems to apply also to all sorts of dubious entities and doctrines. People can and will choose to believe in different Gods (or even in Santa Claus or the living Elvis Presley) and the different codes and canons and constraints and codicils that their different Gods prescribe and proscribe. All of them will feel little need to explain or defend their beliefs and will in words or deeds tell the others to shut up. They'll just choose believe without evidence or logic. No so bad perhaps if they stop at some nebulous "something more" and carry on with their business, but people tend to go from their belief in God to impose their "God-given" rules on others who just believe in some other God.

Best, the Irreverend John



The "Irreverend John" sign-off is new to me, but must say it reflects the essence of the man. Also, tomorrow's NYT published an article about him:

nytimes.com
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