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Rationalism: a paper tiger?

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Phat
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11-12-2007 7:46 AM 		Reply to: Message 29 by nator
11-12-2007 7:37 AM

Re: The catch-22
You are probably on the right track.
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One side likes to believe in absolute moral standards which they themselves never live up to, advocating grace and forgiveness....
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The other side emphasizes behavior and personal responsibility which they try mightily to live up to and expect their friends and family to do likewise.
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Its like how you get disgusted when I listen to a preacher and apply peer pressure to get me to listen to N.P.R.
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In contrast, I could care less what you do in the privacy of your own life...I figure you made the choice and its none of my business.
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BTW....I don't insist that your kids believe in God, either....I just don't want it to be taught that God is a myth.
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11-01-2010 11:11 AM 		Reply to: Message 6 by jar
11-11-2007 12:08 PM

Re: Yet more nonsense.
jar writes:
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We also know that humans are capable of imagining Ideals which we now know are impossible in reality, for example an Absolutely Level Surface, or an Absolutely Straight Line. The fact that they cannot exist does not mean that humans cannot imagine such things.
Humans prefer to imagine things which we can live with. Some absolutes are too uncomfortable to allow. (Absolute equality, for example..which includes finance)
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