[ExI] Fundamentalism and a Scientific Outlook

[Lee Corbin]

Stathis writes

> Liberal theologians sometimes treat religion as if it is obviously just fantasy:

Ah, thank you.  That is a great term for what I was trying to describe. It's
the liberal theologians to whom I feel less affinity than the fundmentalists.

> we know that there are no virgin births, people don't rise from the dead, etc.
> (at least not 2000 years ago), but they are inspiring stories nonetheless,
> like the mythology of any culture.

> Would you say that these people are more or less honest than the
> fundamentalists, who after all have to convince themselves of
> something a rational person would not believe and call it "faith"? 

Question right on target!  I would say that these people are *less*
honest by far than the fundamentalists.

Lee