--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "J. Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Give as many examples as you like to those concerned, >I have no objection. What has all that got to do with >my religious belief? I do object to being tarred with >the same brush you use for them. >
Dear Joel: It is not my intention to tar anybody. When I say that religious beliefs, such as the ones I had listed in my last post, are based on faith in spite of contrary evidence, I am not making that statement to cast aspersions on people who hold these beliefs. I thought I had made this fact clear. I do not use the phrase "belief based purely on faith" in a pejorative sense. In fact, I strongly object to your comparing (perhaps unwittingly) these folk, some of whom are my dear friends, with "sexually promiscuous industrialists", as you do below. > >I know of many sexually promiscuous industrialists. >However, I do not imply that being an industrialist >requires sexual promiscuity. Similarly, although I >know many illogical believers, religious belief does >not require me to abandon scientific method or to >cling to beliefs which have been refuted by evidence >or logic. > >From my personal experience I know that many of these illogical religious believers have also not abandoned their scientific method. They merely keep their religious beliefs separate from their scientific ideas, and do it amazingly effectively. > >If you are not attempting to generalize about >religious belief from such examples, then I happily >withdraw allegations of prejudice and stereotyping and >apologise for misunderstanding you. > I am certainly attempting to generalize about religious belief from the examples I gave, but I am doing it without any kind of prejudice. I feel thoroughly justified in doing that because I am yet to be convinced by you or anybody else that religious belief of any sort is based on evidence. In fact, I must say that I have never met a person who has claimed that their religious beliefs are based on scientific evidence. The closest that somebody has come to saying something like that are VHP types who have claimed that Vedas contain scientifically accurate statements, such as the exact value for the speed of light. I would like this to be my last post on this thread. Please don't take offense if I do not respond to your reply to this post. It was fun having this dialogue with you. Regards, Santosh =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
