
From david_ackerman@yahoo.com Wed Mar 28 23:43:40 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:40:28 -0800 (PST)
From: David Ackerman <david_ackerman@yahoo.com>
To: Jeff Brotemarkle <jbrotema@coin.org>,
    Lucrecia Culberson <lculbe6495@aol.com>,
    David Eisenstein <deisenst@coin.org>,
    Cheryl Hill <cheryllhill@yahoo.com>, Vlasta Hinshaw <vhinshaw@coin.org>,
    Kelly Lasiter <kcl78@yahoo.com>, Rhymes Moncure <revrhy@aol.com>,
    Susan Salisbury <dadssue@aol.com>
Subject: Re: More thought on religion

Dear Chefs,
     To add a bit, David, you suggest that Jeff's
statement that a religions exclusivity may not
necessarily diminish it's truth iIs partly false. I
will agree with each of you in part. I agree with Jeff
in his (I believe,) intent, by thinking that a
falsehood doesn't somehow make a truth into a
falsehood. But I will agree with you in what I believe
is your intent, that when you take a falsehood and a
truth together, their product is false. 
     To put it otherwise, taken in isolation the idea
that the Earth is round is true, (or at least, I
believe it so,) even if that truth is contained in a
geocentic falsehood. However, that model of the
universe would in total be a false one, even though it
contained truth. Perhaps religious and philisophical
truth operate according to the same model, which might
just possibly make all religions, Christianity
included, in some sense false religions. In any case,
as I haven't time to write further I shall simply
profer this for your digestion for the time being.
                                      Sincerely,
                                      David Ackerman

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