Tim Rhodes wrote:
> the great tinkerer wrote:
>
> >one statistic that shocked me (and causes me to question both the
> >reliabiliy of the source) 48 percent of the people questioned believe there
> >would be MORE war if jesus had never existed...
>
> Let's just thank the Lordy Jeezus that those people are Christians! (And
> hopefully remain so.) Think about it--they're admitting, above, what they'd
> be likely to do if they weren't!
>
> -Prof. Tim
Hmmm... I wouldn't be surprised if those people thought they'd also be more
likely to commit murder if they weren't Christians, but as Reed (I believe) has
pointed out recently, humans go in for a lot of aggressive posturing, but it
takes quite a bit to motivate them to actually take a life. Just because a lot
of people report their perceptions/beliefs in a way that gives credit for their
civil behavior to Jesus
(or more accurately to Christianity) doesn't mean that they have any special
insight into their own psychology. That is to say, just cause they say it
doesn't mean it's true. That seems to be the theme for the day.
-KMO