On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:59 PM, David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> wrote: > On Mon, July 26, 2010 3:53 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> --On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: >>>> When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe >>>> there's no genuine interest in dialog. >>> >>> Well, I hate to break it to you, but people who are trying to make a >>> religious point aren't interested in dialog, anyway. In fact, it's >>> pretty >>> well impossible to have a dialog with them that gets anywhere. You >>> can't >>> have a sensible debate when the other person's fallback response is >>> always >>> "it's god's will, so it's beyond our understanding and we can't question >>> it, and you're an evil person for not agreeing with me." These people >>> have been taught from a young age that logic is evil and will lead them >>> down the road to hell, so logical arguments are lost on them. >>> >> >> The assumptions and bias in that statement are so broad as to defy >> description. > > Well, all I can say is I was a regular church-goer for 20 years, and went > to religious school for six of those, so I come by my position honestly. > > I guess this is pretty thoroughly OT at this point, though.
<OT> Seems so, but it's a very interesting topic.I kindly invite all interested in having this discussion here: http://ekowiki.org/index.php/Religion This is a humble project I started a while back when I decided to stop talking and thinking and actually try to do something... </OT> > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"