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From: david@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Norris)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Tough one to swallow
Message-ID: <859@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 02:39:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  3 02:39:31 1984
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Rich Rosen, on the poor fellow who misspelled "Satan":

> I think, though, that
> it says something about the nature of evangelists and the caliber
> of their audiences when it's obvious that it's not important to have
> read the Bible in order to join this particular flock, but it IS
> important to keep listening---having an open ear (preferably with the
> suction power on high) and (as TCW has mentioned) an open wallet is
> more of a requirement than knowledge and thought.  

"Hasty Generalization"  - Rich has based a general statement on too small
a sample.  Also, he has not made any connection between a bad speller and
the quality of the audience of an evangelist.  He assumes:
	a) This fellow is a member of an evangelist's audience
	b) He is an idiot (argumentum ad Hominem, again)
	c) He has a wallet with money in it
	d) He has never read the Bible (or hardly ever).  This is not
	   obvious because he misspells "Satan".  He may have dyslexia, or
	   simply be a bad speller with a bad memory.

Also, there isn't any evidence showing that an "open wallet"
is more of a requirement because one person's spelling was bad.

	-- David Norris        :-)
	-- uw-beaver!ssc-vax!david