Re: logic makes a comeback

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:50:14 -0600

At 01:13 PM 6/12/97 EDT, you wrote:
>Russell:
>
><<Is Christianity directly responsible for their actions?
>No. They were responsible for their actions. But it certainly shows that
>people are not any less inclined to be immoral just because they happen to
>believe in God.>>
>
>You point to INCIDENTS which were all corrected by the very system you
>castigate.

Were they?

>And the greater majority of people in the world were made better by
>Christianity. Read the Gladstone quote again.

I read it. All it proves is that Christianity is *one* system that
*can* help people. I never said that it was no good. But your claim
of complete moral superiority of the Christian system over all others
is just not supported by the evidence.

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