Subject: Re: By God!
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 12:41:27 EST
In a message dated 1/20/00 8:00:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in writes:
<<
First, as an unabashed fan of Ambrose Bierce ["Faith: Belief without
evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of
things without parallel."], and thankfully since I am not as
credulous as the Electric Monk in Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective
Agency, I leave this "illogical belief in the occurrence of the
improbable" for the "religious minded." >>
That's our first point of departure here...we have entirely different views
on what faith is. Forgive me for repeating myself (esp. to a fellow Adams
fan), but I don't have faith in ideas, but in a Person. I don't believe what
is being said before I believe the person saying it, and belief in the
existence of the person saying it precedes acceptance of their propositions...
It's no more difficult to me than admitting what **I** see before me.
Jim
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