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• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 12 Apr 2004 22:00:55 -0700
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Michael Champion <mc@x...> writes:

> I remember a college
> history teacher who had a bit of fun tripping up the professed
> Christians in the class with their inability to distinguish the
> Revealed Truth from the various historical heresies.  "Sorry, you
> would have been burned at the stake for holding that opinion."   I
> wonder if the believers in the Revealed Truth in the class remember
> that session as clearly as I do 30 years later... I certainly came
> away with a lifelong non-interest in making rigid distinctions about
> intrinsically fuzzy concepts]

I just hope you won't try to burn /Rusty/ on a stake for his view :=)

Ari.

-- 
Elections only count as free and trials as fair if you can lose money
betting on the outcome.

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