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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Tough one to swallow
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Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 10:17:41 EST
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David Norris writes about Rich Rosen's ridicule of the person
who misspelled "Satan":

>>> "Hasty Generalization" - Rich has based a general statement on too small
>>> a sample.  Also, he has not made any connection between a bad speller &
>>> 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.

Sorry David, from here it looks like RR is batting a good .500.
He isn't generalizing at all.  Indeed, his logic is deductive, not
inductive.  The fellow clearly is of an evangelical persuasion,
and can't have read too much of the Bible.  Folks who read a lot
DO spell correctly.  And if he had dyslexia, he would have transposed
letters, not substituted an "i" for an "a".  But RR covers himself,
since if the fellow really DOES read, yet still cannot spell a
simple word basic to his values, then he IS an idiot.  This is not
an ad hominem, it's a fact.  But let's not get all worked up over
this.  Even we grammarians can hate the sin but love the sinner.
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