Re: MD Systematic about the Sophists (Kingsley)

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 20:53:57 GMT

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    Hi Sam, DMB:

    > > DMB says:
    > > This is one of those cases where the distinction between mythic thinking
    > and
    > > intellectual thinking is impossible to avoid. In scientific and rational
    > > sense, people do not come back to life after being dead for three days.
    > > That's a fact. The resurrection is a myth. That's what "makes a simple
    > > understanding of 'life after death' problematic. The difference between
    > > myths and facts is the cause of your ambivalence. Any attempt to mix
    > > theology and philosophy has to be predicated on a failure to respect that
    > > difference. It makes intellectual sense only when we read the myth
    > > symbolically and poetically instead of literally and actually.

    Sam replies:

    > I think you have a naive understanding of what a 'fact' is. There are no
    > uninterpreted facts, and interpretations are governed by their overarching
    > narrative framework.

    This is right out of the bible of postmodernism that claims "It's a fact
    there are no facts. It's true that nothing is true."

    You might as well say "Words don't exist."

    To deny a distinction between myth and fact is to deny the ability of
    one's mind to distinguish between a fairy and a firefly, between a finger
    and the moon it points to, between a menu and a plate with a raison on
    it.

    Pray that an American soldier being shot at by an Iraqi doesn't wait for
    an interpretation within an overall narrative framework to shoot back.

    Do you really not see a difference between fact and fiction? Do you
    really challenge DMB's assertion that as a matter of undeniable fact
    "people do not come back to life after being dead for three days?"

    Say it isn't so, Sam.

    Platt

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