Sujet : Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
De : psperson (at) *nospam* old.netcom.invalid (Paul S Person)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written alt.usage.englishDate : 27. May 2025, 17:13:59
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On Mon, 26 May 2025 10:54:47 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
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On 5/26/25 08:37, Paul S Person wrote:
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2. Science is very good (as far as we can tell) at describing a world
(universe)/corrupted by sin/. It can say nothing about one that is
not. It is, IOW, limited in a way it cannot even detect because
nothing it studies is not corrupted. The situation in which the New
Jerusalem descends is generally considered to taking place in a new
world (universe), freed from sin.
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How do you know that what you are describing as a Universe
corrupted by Sin is real? You are living within the Xtian mythos.
Myth-OS is not a good place to start from whether Xtian, Jewish,
Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Norse. or other pagan mythos.
How do you know that a Universe /not/ corrupted by Sin is real?
The question cuts both ways. And "Myth-OS"es are everywhere.
And you somehow left out: atheist, anti-religious bigotry, secular
humanism, and any other religion that denies its own nature.
Note that many of these admit to being philosophies or even
ideologies. But when those function as a "Myth-OS", they act as a
religion.
This is why attempts to change other people's minds by "citing facts"
does not generally work: what is going on is all too often actually an
attempt to convert them from one religion to another.
And, BTW, my statement clearly supports the validity of Science. But
only for the Universe we are in.
-- "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,Who evil spoke of everyone but God,Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"