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"Enkidu" |
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21 Dec 2005 02:00:12 PM |
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Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how
good they make the crusaders feel."
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Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions
make it impossible to earn a living.
-- Bertrand Russell
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| User: "Part_Time_Troll" |
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| Title: Re: Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
24 Dec 2005 11:20:30 PM |
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Enkidu <jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com> in news:Xns97337A28E3E72255229@130.133.1.4:
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how
good they make the crusaders feel."
sowell's on the dole (hoover). he either doesn't even understand basic econ, or deliberately fabricates for his columns (i
assume he writes his own columns).
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only a god with a sense of cruel irony would wait until the religiots were behind the door before passing out (i.e., distributing :-)
) the brains.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041128092857/http://www.freep.com/news/cfp/3/vshoot28_20041028.htm
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| User: "Colin Day" |
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| Title: Re: Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
21 Dec 2005 05:23:14 PM |
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Enkidu wrote:
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how
good they make the crusaders feel."
And this makes Sowell an atheist? I saw this quote on the positiveatheism
website, but it also listed a professor at a Baptist seminary.
And the quote itself is not particularly atheistic, as even Jesus said "By
their fruits shall ye know them.".
Colin Day aa #1500
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
21 Dec 2005 05:37:59 PM |
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Colin Day <cday3@sc.rr.com> wrote in
news:Ctlqf.5791$Ml4.2517@southeast.rr.com:
Enkidu wrote:
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by
how good they make the crusaders feel."
And this makes Sowell an atheist? I saw this quote on the
positiveatheism website, but it also listed a professor at a Baptist
seminary.
And the quote itself is not particularly atheistic, as even Jesus said
"By their fruits shall ye know them.".
Hmmm.... my source differed. I yield.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
-- Sir William Osler 1849-1919
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| User: "Colin Day" |
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| Title: Re: Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
21 Dec 2005 11:01:33 PM |
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Enkidu wrote:
Colin Day <cday3@sc.rr.com> wrote in
news:Ctlqf.5791$Ml4.2517@southeast.rr.com:
Enkidu wrote:
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by
how good they make the crusaders feel."
And this makes Sowell an atheist? I saw this quote on the
positiveatheism website, but it also listed a professor at a Baptist
seminary.
And the quote itself is not particularly atheistic, as even Jesus said
"By their fruits shall ye know them.".
Hmmm.... my source differed. I yield.
What is your source? I was using the www.positiveatheism.org site.
Colin Day aa #1500
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
22 Dec 2005 08:30:48 AM |
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Colin Day <cday3@sc.rr.com> wrote in news:Nqqqf.1401$Or5.1359
@tornado.southeast.rr.com:
Enkidu wrote:
Colin Day <cday3@sc.rr.com> wrote in
news:Ctlqf.5791$Ml4.2517@southeast.rr.com:
Enkidu wrote:
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged
by
how good they make the crusaders feel."
And this makes Sowell an atheist? I saw this quote on the
positiveatheism website, but it also listed a professor at a Baptist
seminary.
And the quote itself is not particularly atheistic, as even Jesus
said
"By their fruits shall ye know them.".
Hmmm.... my source differed. I yield.
What is your source? I was using the www.positiveatheism.org site.
Colin Day aa #1500
I've pulled from a dozen sourses, but I think I got carried away, trying
to continue the series longer than my time for research would allow. I
did check each person with second source to see if the quote seemed to
match their overall beliefs.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
"I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only
maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold
that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is
positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not
wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were
true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that
the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what
the faithful affirmed was actually the case."
-- Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
21 Dec 2005 03:49:11 PM |
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On 21 Dec 2005 20:00:12 GMT, Enkidu <jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com> wrote:
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how
good they make the crusaders feel."
Sowell may be an atheist, but he's politically way too far to the
right to be rational most of the time.
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"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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| Title: Re: Thomas Sowell, rational atheist. |
22 Dec 2005 01:31:24 AM |
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:49:11 -0500, raven1
<quoththeraven@nevermore.com> wrote:
On 21 Dec 2005 20:00:12 GMT, Enkidu <jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com> wrote:
"Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how
good they make the crusaders feel."
Sowell may be an atheist, but he's politically way too far to the
right to be rational most of the time.
Actually I think he is rational most of the time.
What I can't figure out is why he does lean so far right in some of
his opinions.
He can say one thing that is really brilliant but then a paragraph
over say something that sends the head spinning.
Oh yeah, and I don't think he's an atheist...he just doesn't make a
big deal out of religion one way or the other.
atheist@home#1554
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