Re: logic makes a comeback

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:57:17 -0600

At 06:42 PM 6/20/97 EDT, you wrote:
>JB <<This question came up when Russell opined that just as much
"materialist"
>evil had been corrected by materialism as Christianity had corrected
Christian
>evils.
>
>RS <<No, actually it came up when pointed out that Christians have denounced
>evil behavior on the part of other Christians. I then countered by pointing
>out that many materialists (like Chomsky) have been equally active in
>denouncing evil behavior.>>
>
>Nice try, Russell, but you can't slip out of your untenable position by
>re-writing the past. Your EXACT words were:
>
><<So my system has corrected its wrongs in the same way that your system has
>corrected its wrongs.>>

Yes, since your proof for your system "correcting its wrongs" consists
of nothing more than evidence that Christians have denounced evil
behavior.

So, as you can see, my system has corrected its wrongs in the same
way that yours has.

>If you want to retract your words, so be it. But don't pretend you never
wrote
>them.

I'm not retracting and I'm not pretending. You just misunderstood
what I was saying.

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