"Actually we have a relevant
observation from Wolfe: “Silk is a good man in a bad religion.” Plainly he
thinks that there can be better or worse conceptions of the Divine, even if all
are imperfect."<br><br>This seems to me more of a statement about Silk than the Divine. Also, now I can think of is Oreb continually assuring all players in the story that Silk is a "good man!". <img goomoji="330" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:330@goomoji.gmail"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Gerry Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" target="_blank">Antonin Scriabin</a> </div><div class="im"><font face="Calibri"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12pt">> On
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"The same way that one group of humans could have a better grasp of science,
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really, if you add the qualification "equally valid <i>on the topic of absolute
truth</i>".<br><br><span></span></div>Actually we have a relevant
observation from Wolfe: “Silk is a good man in a bad religion.” Plainly he
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