From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 14:33:21 BST
Matt,
I feel like there's some confusion...
Scott:
"Only that one has a responsibility to recognize that
religion is not limited to the "because God said so" kind of argument. "
I certainly understand that. I realize that many people can talk
intelligently and reasonable and level-headedly about religion and faith
and reason. But if someone is not backing up their policy claim with
"because God said so," then they've sufficiently secularized and there's no
problem. There's only a problem if either side starts to use premises that
the other does not agree with (up to and including Darwinian evolution).
Rorty doesn't want to exclude priests from the conversation, he just
doesn't want to be asked if he's taken confession or not. If the priest
doesn't, and instead offers up some arguments about abortion, then
God-forbid Rorty standing in his way;-)
Matt
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