who's Christian?

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Tue Jun 19 20:47:09 CDT 2001


I find this string bizarre on the facts.  If I understand the definitions, 
JBor (and don't we all know that JBor is Rob Jackson an Australian?  Or not.  
who could care less) is saying an interest in religion does not make one a 
religious writer.  A simple, obvious point.  

(I am, by the way, an interested reader in theology, , have long been, but I 
think religion is bunkum, pure superstition and a bizarre, lingering remnant 
from pre-scientific times.  Does my interest make me religious?  No.)

Religion is in GR yet another system, another sieve through which one reckons 
the world, one that cannot be ignored, given the sort of book P was writing.  
But is he "religious"?  Is he a man of the faith?  I see no evidence of that. 
 Certainly not that he's a Christian. 

As usual, Millison's attacks in this string are personal and hypocritical.  
And, as has become his method, he makes no argument; rather, he buries the 
list in copied and pasted material of varying and questionnable relevance, 
none of it original thought, of which he seems to have little.

  

  
 
 






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