tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post3118782860352992909..comments2008-02-12T21:36:34.348-05:00Tony W. Cartledgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04890640429983888869noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post-81144555115256783982008-02-12T18:19:00.000-05:002008-02-12T18:19:00.000-05:002008-02-12T18:19:00.000-05:00"a voice for common sense and freedom to believe here also."<BR/><BR/>Most definitely. Funny the way we speak of such an uncommon thing as "common sense." I think in years past, before so many things have been done to "dumb down" the population, for instance, there was a lot more common sense around.<BR/><BR/>2 examples: parent used to watch their children, in the days before we had to legislate such things as the size of picket spacing so that kids would not get their tiny little heads caught in them. And, lawn mowers used to know enough to keep their hands and feet out from under their mowers, back in the days before we had to build them so they won't run unless you keep your hands on the handle.<BR/><BR/>We sure have come a long way in our "dumbing down of the population."<BR/><BR/>I started writing this comment to make a comment about mud-slingers. I ran across this last week, and it applies so much toward those who seek to discuss philosophical topics like religion. Enjoy!<BR/><BR/>"I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one."<BR/> <BR/>Ludwig Feuerbach <BR/>1804-1872, German Philosopher<BR/><BR/>starstardusterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617338701626625177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post-73315417906575536922008-02-08T13:26:00.000-05:002008-02-08T13:26:00.000-05:002008-02-08T13:26:00.000-05:00I am so glad you mentioned the Baptist World Alliance Tony, they do such good work and have been so maligned by the SBC that many think they are almost evil.<BR/>And I appreciate that you stay above the mud slinging and stay with fact and it gives me hope that there is a voice for common sense and freedom to believe here also. There are times when I am not so sure that some of our houses of worship won't be shut down, or cast aside.Paul McCurrynoreply@blogger.com