virus: Saints

Reed Konsler (konsler@ascat.harvard.edu)
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 02:24:26 +0100


>Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 08:23:30 -0800
>From: Marie Foster <mfos@ieway.com>
>
>> 3. They should be Atheists or Agnostics...
>> Sodom
>
>Bill... there are lots of good theists out there that diserve
>consideration....!
>
>Marie

For instance, Marshall McLuhan: father of media theory,
patron sait of Wired magazine, Roman Catholic. I think the
point of a religion founding on careful and critical thinking
is that evaluations should not be made based upon litmus
tests...great thinkers are often a little crazy, difficult to
understand, and wrong about something or other (depending
on one's perspective). Aquinas was a theist, too...so was
Occam, and (despite misgivings) Hume (at least, he concluded
pre-Darwin that there was no reasonable alternative to divine
creation which presupposes the existence of God).

Reed

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