Re: interdicting YEC

From: Guy Blanchet (guyblanchet@sympatico.ca)
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 06:29:05 EST

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    Mr. Murphy,

    Is there a way of achieving this without breaking the commandement of love
    thy neighbor? What do you propose?

    Regards,

    Guy Blanchet

    george murphy a écrit:

    > Apropos the discussion on the lay education project & related
    > threads, there are 2 parts that are not being distinguished
    > sufficiently.
    > 1) Trying to get convinced YECs to change their minds, or at
    > least recognize that there's is not the only legitimate Christian view.
    > 2) Keeping people in this first group from promulgating their
    > views to young people & other unwary folks.
    > 1 will be at best a low yield operation, for reasons that others
    > have pointed out. It seems to me that the best bet is to concentrate on
    > 2. Nobody is going to go to Hell for thinking the earth is 6000 years
    > old so we can in good conscience give up on trying to actually convince
    > the YECs that they're wrong, & concentrate on trying to keep them from
    > propagating their errors.
    >
    > Happy Epiphany,
    >
    > George
    >
    > George L. Murphy
    > "Theologia naturalis delenda est!"
    > http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/



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