RE: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of RFaussette@aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:25 AM

>
> 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.

One can't divorce the present from the past in the way you are trying.
If the earlier church had dealt more honestly it very will might have
been that people like Huxley wouldn't have been so influential and
damaging to the faith. It might not have been that when H. G. Wells
went to college, he might not have been as influenced by Huxley. It
just seems to me that we are partly responsible for the state of affairs
in which we find ourselves.

As to signing up for different boards, I regularly read but don't post
on several atheistic boards. One I post on occasionally is
Infidels.org.

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.

Well, they are right in some sense. Christians have not behaved in a
very friendly manner to all sorts of peoples. Look at how the Christian
Spanish treated the Native Americans. It took 3 papal statements to
include them in the human family.

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.

I have been on a list run by Farrell Till for a while. I was the only
Christian on that list at the time. The hostility was incredible, so
don't lecture me about seeing things I have already seen.
Received on Sat Feb 19 17:25:18 2005