>-----Original Message-----
>From: John W Burgeson [mailto:burgytwo@juno.com]
>Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 11:59 PM
>To: glenn.morton@btinternet.com; asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Is the resurrection story a "vehicle" for reflecting
>divine/human relationships?
>
>Second -- I think the phrase "more atheistically inclined" is really a
>pejorative, as well as being quite inaccurate. Among the people I know
>are
>Jews, Buddhists, very "liberal"Christians and other theists, who would
>take any comment that they
>are "more atheistically inclined" than fundamentalist/evangelical
>Christians
>to be an insult. Certainly I, myself, considering myself as a fairly
>liberal
>Christian, don't think of myself as "more atheistically inclined" than
>my fundamentalist friends, of whom I have more than a few.
Burgy, in what fashion is it perjorative, to call an atheist, 'more
atheistically inclined'? I was referring to atheists and I think you really
understood it by the paragraph below. I wasn't referring to anyone of any
religion when I wrote that. I would never say of anyone with religious
beliefs that they are 'more atheistically inclined.' You read that wrong
and read into it things I didn't write, imply or mean.
>
>Third -- the fact that there exists an "entire literature" is well known
>among
>many people -- those who think and read, and those who seek confirmation
>of
>an a priori opinion that Christianity is bogus. I run into both kinds
>on the Compuserve forums I've helped managed for the past seven years.
The point of it Burgy, is that the literature is out there. Many of these
people of whom you say'seek confirmation of an a priori opinion that
Christianity is bogus' are former Christians. They certainly couldn't have
started with an a priori bias. And since you understood who it is that is
spreading such literature and ideas, I am a bit disapppointed in you for
saying that I was calling religious people of any stripe, 'more
atheistically inclined'. Atheists ARE more atheistically inclined and I
stand by that!!!!!!!
glenn
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