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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (18077)3/11/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
"What there is evidence of (in abundance) is that the believers and followers of this claptrap become parasites, feeding off of the men and women who truly create and move the rest of the human race forward."
But Terrance, there is also "evidence" in abundance that non-believers also may become "parasites." There can be no scientific evidence of these "other realities" because of the way that science defines "evidence".

Neither can there be "scientific evidence" of "progress" (I assume that that is what you mean when you say "move the rest of the human race forward"). On what basis does one call something "progress"? Is it progress to have more and more people living cluttered together in huge densely populated cities? Is it progress when we create conditions in which there are so many people in the world that we increasingly crowd out many other species of life, plant and animal alike, eliminating or polluting their environment? We are apparently, at least, aiming toward that end. Numerous other possible questions, but no time to post or think of them right now. You probably get my point--there is an abyss between "reason" and "revelation" that arguments (even seemingly "reasonable" ones) can't cross, and even so-called reason has its finally "unreasonable" or unjustifiable faith.
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