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

[Matt Johnston]

That's kinds my point.


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http://cimota.com/blog

On 6 Dec 2007, at 16:02, David Cake <dave at difference.com.au> wrote:

> At 1:32 PM +0000 6/12/07, Matt Johnston wrote:
>> --
>> http://cimota.com/blog
>>
>> On 6 Dec 2007, at 13:06, Chris Gehlker <canyonrat at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you now willing to concede that Newton was both a committed
>>> Christian and a "genuine" scientist?
>>> --
>>
>> Jesus Christ.
>>
>> To be honest Chris, you're using the same tactics that Creationists  
>> use.
>>
>> 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
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