Duty (to Ed Tyler)

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At 09:14 AM 4/17/98 -0400, you wrote:




>Where there is a relativist, you will also find one who doesn't search for 

>absolute truth.  Were you aware of that?  


Ed
I'm aware that you've just passed on one of the Great Lies of the theists.

It's not necessary to invent a hairy thundering theistic punisher in order
to hold oneself to a code of ethics.  

In fact, the conduct of theists in the list suggests that just the opposite
is the case.

I've been on this list only about 2 days now and have seen very little from
the theists but misrepresentation, equivocation, and intellectual
dishonesty.  Your response to Till is a case in point.  Instead of
acknowledging that Terry's misrepresentation of Dawkins' preface was at
best egregiously negligent and at worst a deliberate lie, you shift the
ground in an attempt to make Till look like he's somehow ethically
deficient for not holding the theistic superstition.  Till's on the ethical
high ground in this discussion; you and Terry are in the cesspool.

If the theists hold a monopoly on the "search for absolute truth," why are
you obfuscating the issue at hand, which is Terry's open misrepresentation
of another man's words?

Till was right:  It IS Terry's Christian duty (if in fact he's a Christian,
which he refuses to say) to set the record straight on Dawkins, and to do
so openly and expeditiously. It is patently dishonest of you to attempt to
shift the question of ethics away from Terry's egregious breech of integrity.

(DAVE 4/25)  Ed:  Thanks for your comments.  I must agree that I fall into 
the all-to-easy trappings of getting sidetracked, and for that I apologize.  
A note of explanation here though:  I have not been participating on the 
thread of Terry and Dawkins, nor do I desire to.  As well, I have been 
dealing with Farrell for some time now and am interested in understanding 
him better, but at the same time publicly challenging him to support what he 
states - he has a large "following" with little opposition on this listing.  
My comments here to him are among many in which I want him to 
support/explain what he says, and are not focussed on the subject of the 
thread itself - those were my intentions - sorry that they were misunderstood.

Regards.

Dave



"An inevitable result fo autonomy is relativity.  If men are their own 
creators, then the social environment, destiny, and meaning of existence 
created by one group of people, in one place and time, are not necessarily 
relevant to another group of people in a different historical context.  
Those in each society bring into being a system of thought and values that 
has meaning only for those who create and live within it.  This is 
particularly true in the realm of morals...."
                                            - Tony Campolo

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