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Albertoo

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5. No. I am stating that reason operates with facts

Reply to rug (Reply #3)

Sun May 15, 2016, 08:04 PM

May 2016

People who do not reason from fact are called delusional or misguided.
Which is pretty much what the chaps who wrote the sacred religious fairy tales were.

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Editorial: 'Reason' and religion have mixed for centuries [View all] rug May 2016 OP

maybe that explains how f***ed up the world is Skittles May 2016 #1

The screwed-uppedbess of our world seems in history so far to have defied struggle4progress May 2016 #4

Reason mixed with religion by lack of information Albertoo May 2016 #2

You're equating reason with science. rug May 2016 #3

No. I am stating that reason operates with facts Albertoo May 2016 #5

State the evidence that the "chaps" were delusional or misguided. rug May 2016 #8

It's already in my post #2 Albertoo May 2016 #9

that's what gave the Scholastics such a bad tradition: too rationalistic MisterP May 2016 #6

Too much rationalization in scholasticism Brettongarcia May 2016 #7