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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: On the question of belief in the Bible
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 12:55:47 EDT
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> If I'm anything like the
> average human being (and I assume that I am, by positive feedback), I
> *prefer* one coherent perception of truth, for sanity's sake, if anything. 
> And therefore, I will lock myself into that explanation if it provides me
> with even a semblance of a coherent reality that works for me.  And me,
> Mr. Joe Superficially-minded, had better be able to understand that
> explanation, or I'll soon be heading down Nietsche's Road to Nonmoralistic
> Insanity.  And that's why Christianity has had
> such a good record with the simple-minded, and not with the intellectual
> snobs that can't stoop to such an easily-assimilated truth.  Only coherently
> one-track minds will accept a coherently one-track Truth, and the others
> will get what they look for. (i.e., pieces of a shattered mirror) 
> [stolaf!gulley]

I couldn't have defended the proposition (that religion is founded in wishful
thinking, preconception, and believing what one wants to believe rather than
thinking about things one possibly might not understand) better myself.
Thank you, Mr. Gulley.
-- 
Occam's Razor:  I liked it so much, I bought the company!
						Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr