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That was a very unoriginal article. It's just a restating of Matthew 7:16-23.
To the question of religion in politics: it's quite simple. Americans want to a certain level of comfort understanding what motivates their president, what guides him when he has to make the difficult decisions that only presidents face. They trust folks with religions bearings more than those without because it provides a measure of that understanding, to say nothing of the implied moral code that is supposed to go with it. There is no great mystery here.
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If you must pigeonhole me, this is as good a label as any. I am on record here criticizing know it all atheists, including in this thread, just as I have your professed "knowledge" of spiritual matters. The real irony is that you consider yourself a postmodernist.
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Postmodernism isn't a system for handicapping, forgiving or rationalizing logical gaps, absurdities or even patent fraud and self-delusion in organized religious movements.
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It's a method of inquiry, that is all. It doesn't really seek to solve any questions but adds more questions.
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Are we debating what "knowledge" is again?
Tooblue is persuaded by the evidence. He calls that state of being knowledge. Archaea thinks knowledge is too strong a term for when one is persuaded by the evidence. Does that about sum it up? "Know" is not the word I would use either, but in the context of our cultural construct I don't begrudge tooblue the use of it. I know what he means. Or if I think he is deluding himself, what of it?
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I think it's more of a means of artisitic expression than anything else. Maybe an outlook. At most it's a philosophical perspective. I wouldn't call it an empirical method of inquiry.
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It's an outlook, and a method or reexamination, but it's not limited to artistic expression, as it often focuses upon the limits of expression.
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