Re: The story-telling ape (was virus: Logic)

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:53:48 -0600


At 06:08 PM 10/18/97 -0400, Reed Konsler wrote:

>For these reasons, and others, I claim to live a life "in faith".

You are right, of course. Your definition of "faith" is
superior to mine. What was I thinking?

>whom I do not like and do not trust. I haven't found any
>correlation with religion or philosophy.

So for you, philosophy and religion has nothing to do with
ethics. That's interesting.

>I do not consider "faith" to be a sin, vice, or heresy.
>This does not imply that I do not value reason, logic,
>rationality, or good old fashioned common sense.

I wonder if you have given any thought to why I might
list "faith" (defined as belief without evidence) among
the sins.

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