[extropy-chat] Way, way, way over the edge...

[Alan Baltis]

I couldn't help but notice (and now comment on) the remarkable difference
between this post and 98% of the other posts to this list. Virtually every
other message here emphasizes facts, cites references, uses logic to build
from a set of facts or assertions to a conclusion. And in fact often cite
footnotes for support, or state known limitations to that conclusion.

This post does not and, being composed of religious belief, of course can
not. A series of unsupported statements, nearly unrelated though otherwise
is implied, leading to unfounded conclusions. The contrast is startling.

I know which style of message I prefer. I know what I need to be willing to
share things with friends with confidence and enthusiasm. But I also know
that higher standard doesn't seem too popular, that for many people the
dogma is sufficient and convincing, and rigorous thought is more confusing,
even threatening, than the "easy" version. Heartbreaking.

- Al



                                                                           
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> *what* precisely is the Biblical basis for objecting to homosexuals?  (If
it
> isn't too much trouble.)

As one of the very very few people in North America familiar with both
transhumanism, extropianism, and Christian Evangelicalism, I may be
able to help with this question. :)

<BIG SNIP>

Whew. OK. That got a little preachy. I apologise. But it's still
important to say. Most people think they know what Christian
Fundamentalists believe, but there are a lot of confusions and
misconceptions. I know that message was very new to me when I first
heard it, and I'd been debating Christians in chatrooms all my life.
I'd just never heard it laid out that way before.


Darin Sunley
dsunley at gmail.com
dsunley at shaw.ca

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