Re: [asa] moonie Christianity today

Rich Blinne wrote:

> On 10/10/06, Todd Pedlar <pedlto01@luther.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:15:51 -0500, Michael Roberts
>> <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Has Christianity Today gone Moonie. If not why publish this article?
>> > Books & Culture, September/October 2006
>> >
>> > The Science Pages
>> > What's New?
>> > Two biologists claim to close a "major gap in Darwin's theory" of
>> > evolution.
>> > by Jonathan Wells
>> >
>>
>> *sarcasm on* Gasp! I guess they have! *sarcasm off*
>>
>> Look at this:
>> http://www.usaweekend.com/98_issues/980208/980208get_organized.html
>>
>> USA Weekend Magazine, February 6-8, 1998
>> "New ways to get organized at work", by Stephen R. Covey.
>>
>> *sarcasm back on* Wow! Has USA Today gone Mormon???? *sarcasm off*
>>
>> Let's be critical where necessary, but not fall prey to all-too-common
>> logical fallacies.
>>
>> Todd
>
>
> If you look at the banner for this it says "Books and Culture: A
> Christian Review". Does a review by a Moonie constitute a Christian
> review of a book? If USA Weekend Magazine was a Christian magazine
> then your example would apply. As it stands one wonders whether the
> orthodoxy of CT applies more to ID than to Evangelical doctrine.

Hi Rich -

Of course, I understand your point. Mine was not to debate whether
Wells's column should appear under "A Christian Review". Certainly there
is much to be decried there - he's no Christian, certainly, and CT should
be ashamed of linking his name to "A Christian Review".

However the points I failed apparently to make in my curt reply were

1) Let's not fall prey to guilt by association. CT doesn't become "Moonie"
by hosting a Moonie reviewer, any more than USA Weekend becomes
Mormon by hosting a Mormon columnist. Presumably the link in each
case is that the respective publishers support the points made in the
column by Wells
and in the column by Covey.

2) Let's not fall prey to making the genetic fallacy. Well's column is not
suspect simply because he's a Moonie, any more than Covey's business
advice is suspect simply because he's a Mormon. Both have flawed
theologies, but the arguments of both should be weighed on their merits,
not on the characteristics of the authors.

Todd

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Todd K. Pedlar
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Luther College
pedlto01@luther.edu
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