@SamHarrisOrg Sam can I introduce you to @SaifRRahman who is founder of http://www.humanistandculturalmuslim.org - think you guys have much to discuss.
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@SamHarrisOrg A well known result in logic is that you can prove anything from a contradiction. Scriptures are full of them.@JPSargeant78 -
@fodwyer@JPSargeant78 Cute, but that doesn't cut it. We're not talking formal logic. And for long stretches, there are no contradictions. -
@SamHarrisOrg so you require a ‘theological’ argument that doesn’t need to meet standards of logic (like they ever do). Ask me a hard one. -
@fodwyer I don't require it. Moderates require it so that they can make a plausible case for their "interpretation" of the faith. -
@SamHarrisOrg What’s plausible depends on who you ask, and I think you’ll find that that the religious can plause pretty much anything. -
@fodwyer Not true. You can't a get a version of Christianity that says, "Jesus was an average schmuck who had no connection to God." -
@SamHarrisOrg Sure you could and probably could get a Ph.D in theology for it too (esp. if you also argued that its negation was true too).
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