Re: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

If I keep looking I am sure I could find a lot of examples of prejudice and
bias against Christianity that seems irrational.

Here is one example:

http://www.thomasmore.org/news.html?NewsID=135
----- Original Message -----
From: <RFaussette@aol.com>
To: ""Glenn Morton"" <glennmorton@entouch.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

> Glenn wrote:
> Yes, I think you are wrong. If you go back to when geology and other
> sciences were developing, in the late 18th and early 19th century, you
> will find that the prevailing paradigm among church laiety was YEC.
>
> rich:
> Yes, but that was long ago. The Enlightenment and Marxism also militated
> against traditional forms, with Marxism responsible for millions of
> Christian martyrs and destroyed churches. There is also a real documented
> shift by social scientists away from traditional forms in the '60s at the
> same time as the sexual revolution which is also a move away from
> traditional behaviors. Given these subsequent massive ideological
> movements, YEC and ID are insignificant artifacts of an earlier age. I'm
> on Ian Pitchford's evolutionary psychology list of 3300 scientists. They
> scoff at YEC and ID but interestingly display an active animus against
> Christianity, with the main complaint that it is responsible for 2,000
> years of Jewish misery. A significant percentage of social scientists are
> Jewish and hold this position. If you want to know the intellectual
> climate, join more lists other than those populated by your colleagues,
> post Christian positions and wait for your responses.
> I attended the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's annual conference in
> the year 2000 at Amherst. Pinker, Dawkins and Wright presented. Robert
> Trivers was there. They gave a eulogy to William Hamilton, arguably the
> greatest evlutionary biologist of the 20th century. At the symposium on
> using evolutionary psychology to study religion, I watched the liberal
> attack on attempts to scientifically study the Bible first hand. I
> journaled the event in a word.doc which is available upon request.
>
> rich faussette
Received on Sat Feb 19 10:39:34 2005