[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[David Cake]

At 1:32 PM +0000 6/12/07, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>http://cimota.com/blog
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>On 6 Dec 2007, at 13:06, Chris Gehlker <canyonrat at mac.com> wrote:
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>>  Are you now willing to concede that Newton was both a committed
>>  Christian and a "genuine" scientist?
>>  --
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>Jesus Christ.
>
>To be honest Chris, you're using the same tactics that Creationists use.
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>If we define a committed Christian as one who allows his life to be 
>guided solely by the Holy Book, old testament and new, then we cannot 
>in any conscience call Isaac Newton a committed Christian.

	Ah, you've slipped from committed Christian to committed 
fundamentalist, biblical literalist, Christian, by sneakily slipping 
in that 'solely'.
	Thus coming up with a definition of Christian that no 
technically no longer includes, say, the Pope or the Archbishop of 
Canterbury.

	We have some sort of maximal ironic projection horizon here 
-- the fundamentalists, of course, are very fond of telling people 
that only biblical literalists are true Christians. So here is mark 
not only taking on a fundamentalist debating tactic, but accusing 
another of doing so by not following that particualr tactic! Huzzah!
	Cheers
		David