Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!cbosgd!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: The Ad Hominem Fellows Message-ID: <1898@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 13:31:26 EST Article-I.D.: cbscc.1898 Posted: Fri Mar 2 13:31:26 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 00:32:55 EST References: <868@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 44 I think that the best thing to do with ad hominem argument is to ignore it. Save your mental energy for something more worthwhile. So what if they get the satisfaction of thinking they are right. That's all they want anyway--not to learn something new from us inherently ignorant and backward Christians. As for Dave's suggested survey. I think that it will prove nothing either way. If a larger portion of the "educated" are atheists, what would that prove? Given the present secularistic philosophy that has undergirded our educational system for the past several decades, I wouldn't be suprised if that were the case. How much exposure is there to Christian philosopy (yes folks, there is such a thing) in our major universities? Go into your local student book store and see how may books by Arthur Holmes, Norman Geisler, Michael Green, Os Guiness (sp?), C. S. Lewis, or Francis Schaeffer (to name a few) that you find. When I was in high school I read Ayn Rand and Herman Hesse. Their books were availible in the school library. They were required reading in one college course that I took. The Bible is supposed to have been one of the most influential (if not THE most) in our western culture. I am suprised at the ignorance of it's content that I find umong the "educated ones" that I meet. (Especially when it comes to understanding evangelicalism). Most have been told what to believe about the Bible's teaching and that instruction is usually convenient to the basic human desire to avoid the moral implications of that teaching, in my opinion. (Had to add those last three words. Take it for what it's worth.) The issue is not the amount of education, but in what they are educated. I don't think that a university degree gives one a corner on truth and knowledge, especially in the area of morals, ethics and theology. Much of one's education consists of filling the mind, not maturing it. Just curious: How many of you have read C. S. Lewis book "The Abolition of Man" in college? How many had even heard of it (or even him)? Paul Dubuc Oh,... please excuse the spelling errors. I assure you that I don't follow any particlular evangelist. :-)