Re: [asa] Rubber Meeting Road -- My Kid in Public School

 From Wikipedia
A lie is an untruthful statement made to someone else with the intention
to deceive. To lie is to say something one believes to be false with the
intention that it be taken for the truth by someone else.

A true statement may be a lie. If the person who makes the true
statement genuinely believes it to be false, and makes the statement
with the intention that his audience believe it to be true, then this is
a lie (see Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Mur (1937)). When a person lies he or
she is intentionally untruthful, but he or she is not necessarily making
an untrue statement.

In general I think words like:
"I disagree..."
"I think ... is wrong or even untrue"
are more helpful and likely to result in discussion. Unfortunately I'm
unable to always put the above into practice as I should especially with
those that are very dogmatic. I suspect that at most a very tiny
fraction of those holding YEC position are in fact liars even though
their position is false and often very damaging.
Dave

James Mahaffy wrote:
> Lets not be so quick to say the pastor and church are teaching lies. I
> suspect they
> are opposing a Godless theory of origins that see taught in the schools
> and to their children.

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Received on Mon Jan 8 16:47:45 2007