In article <7mqf2r$1go_040 at news.uscom.com>,
mattrol at DON'TCCRESPONSESTOMEuscom.com (Drakmere) wrote:
> In article <7mq558$miv$1 at bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>, "Dan Fake"
<danfake at worldnet.att.net>
> did bestow the following nugget of wisdom:
> >Drakmere wrote in message <7mq2o3$1go_008 at news.uscom.com>...
> >>In article <7mpvjm$4o4$1 at bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>, "Dan Fake"
> > <danfake at worldnet.att.net>
> >>did bestow the following nugget of wisdom:
> <snip>
> >>>must one believe based on blind faith? So, as for 6, while it's
easy
> >>>to take that position and defend it, it gets us no closer to the
truth
> >>>than does 2.
> >>>
> >>You do not take into account the possibility that the truth is
unknowable.
> >
> >Well, if you consider that category 6 is close to that, considered
and
> >rejected as being ultimately untrue. After all, there is a god or
there isn't;
> >to accept the possibility is to accept the construct - what god
construct
> >is worthy of acceptance? Even Agnostics would be hard-pressed to
> >accept Zeus or Mithras or Rain Gods or Sun Gods as worthy of
> >acceptance as a possibility, eh? So, once you start rejecting 'em,
why
> >stop? (-:
> That doesn't follow. You indicated that "the truth" exists and that
> agnosticism is a sort of dead end on the path to it. I was telling
you it
> maybe that "the truth" is not knowable, through any path. I don't
think any
> agnostics can out rule the possibilty of an insensitive god or
polytheism.
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>There is probably some grain of truth behind morst myths. Who knows
what inspired the myths of the gods.
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