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To: PapaNew; MortMan; GraceG
What I am saying goes against the status quo, popular culture, mode-o-day conventional wisdom, and like many in the past who have done the same, understand that people don’t necessarily like new, innovative ideas that challenge long-held, but unexamined or unquestioned beliefs.

You mean like ABORTION and GAY MARRIAGE?

105 posted on 03/18/2015 12:00:44 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: P-Marlowe

No. Those are pretty well-examined and found wanting.

The death penalty is more of a knee-jerk issue that remains unexamined by many because of what I said about challenged beliefs. People like Galileo and Isaac Newton are threatened with death for blasphemy when they uncover what is eventually recognized as true, but initially threatens long-held but unexamined beliefs. More like that.


106 posted on 03/18/2015 12:09:21 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: MortMan; GraceG

(Forgot to copy you from P-Marlow’s list...)

No. Those are pretty well-examined and found wanting.

The death penalty is more of a knee-jerk issue that remains unexamined by many because of what I said about challenged beliefs. People like Galileo and Isaac Newton are threatened with death for blasphemy when they uncover what is eventually recognized as true, but initially threatens long-held but unexamined beliefs. More like that.


107 posted on 03/18/2015 12:24:47 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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