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BBC's 'The Passion'
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Subject: Re: BBC's 'The Passion'
From: Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaug...@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:46:53 +0100
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Phil Saunders wrote:
> "Giles" <g_har...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:83bc8760-f4e4-44a5-8f87-338556f70a5a@v32g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>> On Apr 3, 8:53 pm, Alec Brady <alec.br...@virgin.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:30:29 -0700 (PDT), Giles <g_har...@yahoo.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>
> snip
>
>> Do you really think there are atheist writers out there who need to
>> deliberately make up stuff about Jesus's pagan origins? An atheist
>> doesn't need to do that to convince himself there isn't a god.
>
> lmao
>
> There is no greater intellectual dishonesty than to pretend one is truly
> only an atheist.
Eh? Could you explain more clearly (1) what you mean and (2)
why you believe it?
(For what it's worth, btw, I *bet* there are atheist writers
out there who make things up about the (putative) pagan origins
of the Jesus story. Why wouldn't there be? Atheism isn't a
guarantee of honesty or good sense any more than Christianity
is. On the other hand, I also bet that most falsehoods about
Christianity that circulate among atheists -- I'm making no
comment on how common such falsehoods are, not least because
I don't know -- arise in the same sort of way as falsehoods
that circulate among Christians: not from deliberate lying
but from indifference to inconvenient truths. When someone
hears a story that fits his prejudices -- be they Christian
or atheist or anything else -- the fact-checking impulse
tends not to be very strong.)
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Gareth McCaughan
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