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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Casting pearls before swine
Message-ID: <637@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 13:27:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.637
Posted: Wed Jul 24 13:27:01 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 17:41:46 EDT
References: <190@gymble.UUCP> <283@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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In article <283@aero.ARPA> homeier@aero.UUCP (Peter Homeier (MISD)) writes:
> When these dirty parts of our nature, our "swine" parts, are so confronted,
> they do not easily submit to the correcting influence, but instead turn,
> enraged by this exposure of their filth, despise and reject the confronting
> truth, and attempt to destroy the person who bore the truth.  Oddly, the
> very vehemence with which these persons react bears witness to the truth of
> what was said.  Nothing touches a nerve like the truth.

This is one of the most pompous and laughable fallacies of religions.
I've seen it frequently: it is used by many religions.  Which of them is
"the truth"?

How blithe, parochial, and egocentric to assume that only your religion
engenders that sort of natural human reaction.

How illogical to (even assuming your religion is "the truth") conclude
that the reaction is only to being faced with "the truth", rather than to any
of a host of stimuli (such as myopically gauche approaches).

Have you no shame?  Or intellectual integrity?
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh