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18-11-2004, 04:53 PM

(paghat) wrote in message ...
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(Roger Pearse) wrote:

(paghat) wrote in message
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As someone who has for many years studied comparative religion, whose
personal library includes everything from the Babylonian Talmud to the
Zohar and Targums and Midrash Rabbah, to the Upanishads to the the Devi
Mahatmya to Kojiki: The Record of Ancient Matters, to the complete works
of the AnteNicene fathers, five translations of the Bible, the Ng Hammadi
texts & every conceivable scrap of Pseudepigrapha, to the Koran and the
complete works of Rumi, ad infitum, & having read this entire library more
than one time through, I can say that my interest in religion goes as deep
or deeper than yours. Good chance I even know more about your faith than
do you, unless you too have Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria within
arm's reach.

I'm afraid that this claim to authority must be disallowed by any
reasonable person. You are not an authority on a religion of which
you are not a member.

A devottee of a single Christian sect remains so by being blind to &
rejecting the full range of belief.

This claim is based on what peer-reviewed objective statistical
research? You see, it sounds like prejudice to me. Is it not
unacceptable to claim that our religious position alone is right and
everyone else is blind and stupid, surely? (Unless there is some
rational ground for the claim).

All the best,

Roger Pearse