Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!david 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 Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.859 Posted: Sat Mar 3 02:39:31 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 22:21:22 EST Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle Lines: 27 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