--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well said, Mark. I wouldn't touch the last lines > with a ten-foot pole :-), but I sure am interested > to hear the response.
Since Barry already knows quite well what my response would be, this is (surprise!) just a bit disingenuous. On the other hand, Mark's quoting St. Paul at me in the first place was itself rather disingenuous. Both Barry and Mark know I'm not a religionist, much less a fundie Christian who would feel the need to defend Paul's misogyny. In fact, I did send a response, but it never got posted. After Mark's lastest post demanding to know how I reconciled my views with young-earth creationism and other such absurdities--when, again, he knows I'm not a religionist and certainly not a fundie--I realized he, exactly like Harris, is not interested in discussion but rather in polemic. So at this point I'm disinclined to attempt to reconstruct my lost response to this post. > The problem with believing that you know the > Absolute Truth is that it all too often goes > hand in hand with believing that you have the > right (or worse, the God-given duty) to impose > that Absolute Truth on others. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It certainly doesn't with Sullivan, which is why Harris's attack on him is so out of line. Plus which, as I pointed out to Mark, there's a tendency on the part of folks like him and Harris--and Barry, of course--to fall into the inadvertent irony of wanting to impose *their* Absolute Truth on those they're criticizing.
