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RE: Chance to better theism
June 26, 2010 at 2:51 am
How about some intellectual honesty? What's wrong with that.?
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RE: Chance to better theism
June 26, 2010 at 3:52 am
Nothing's wrong with that PR, any ideas on what that would entail.. how do you teach intellectual honesty?
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RE: Chance to better theism
June 26, 2010 at 4:18 am
(June 26, 2010 at 3:52 am)tackattack Wrote: Nothing's wrong with that PR, any ideas on what that would entail.. how do you teach intellectual honesty?
Theism can start with a simple "we don't know this shit for sure"
From there on you can build and continue with:
"we have no real idea if so-called divine revelation amounts to anything more than self-delusion but we are willing to follow the evidence of independent scientific research since we owe so much to it already and it would be hypocritical to negate that"
I'm sure we can work out a plan of attack from there on together. Just let me know if you're interested.
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RE: Chance to better theism
June 26, 2010 at 4:32 am
@PR- see your PM I think I've responded to at least all my threads once tonight I'm getting back to sleep.. I mean work
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