not all roads lead to Rome, esp since not everyone wants to go to Rome

[fuddam]

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/id...ths/?page=full

[MadduckUK]

A sports analogy may be in order here. Which of the following — baseball, basketball, tennis, or golf — is best at scoring runs? The answer of course is baseball, because runs is a term foreign to basketball, tennis, and golf alike. Different sports have different goals: Basketball players shoot baskets; tennis players win points; golfers sink putts. To criticize a basketball team for failing to score runs is not to besmirch them. It is simply to misunderstand the game of basketball.

what an awful analogy

[TheAnimus]

Wow that is the worst written, most flawed, most assuming article I've read all week. And as I've been reading the new statesman, that's really saying something...

[fuddam]

Wow that is the worst written, most flawed, most assuming article I've read all week. And as I've been reading the new statesman, that's really saying something...

really? lol

[TheAnimus]

Yes the author does not understand the difference between tangible fact & belief.

But that's a common one for religious people. What grinds my gears is he doesn't even graphs His Belief & Others Beliefs are just as equal, he seams almost dismissive to any thoughts to the country, with no supporting evidence or concepts, only inductive logic which is based on the beliefs, just like the ones he is trying to rubbish.

[fuddam]

wow, throw your toys! lol.

He's not trying to rubbish anyone's beliefs, other than that people who reduce all religions / belief systems to the same end goal are way off mark, and IMHO condescending to boot.

where does he even begin to need to distinguish between tangible fact & belief? He's talking about the DOCTRINAL differences between those systems.

[peterb]

A sports analogy may be in order here. Which of the following — baseball, basketball, tennis, or golf — is best at scoring runs? The answer of course is baseball, because runs is a term foreign to basketball, tennis, and golf alike. Different sports have different goals: Basketball players shoot baskets; tennis players win points; golfers sink putts. To criticize a basketball team for failing to score runs is not to besmirch them. It is simply to misunderstand the game of basketball.

what an awful analogy

Absolutely - he doesn't mention cricket which is THE obvious answer

[shower]

i also think so. i think its worlds is no logic. the article is not so good.

really? lol

[usxhe190]

Yes the author does not understand the difference between tangible fact & belief.

But that's a common one for religious people. What grinds my gears is he doesn't even graphs His Belief & Others Beliefs are just as equal, he seams almost dismissive to any thoughts to the country, with no supporting evidence or concepts, only inductive logic which is based on the beliefs, just like the ones he is trying to rubbish.

Don't think he was rubbishing other religions - just that religions are different. I.e. don't pigeon-hole everything into one big group.

But his analogy on sports was pretty crap.