At Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:40:48 -0800, you wrote:
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>joe dees wrote:
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>> I can predict that if a Christian is a loan officer, and can only loan money to one of two potential borrowers, all other things being not too unequal, another Christian will receive the loan over an Atheist, if both applicants make their metaphysical convictions known.
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>I agree with this although I would make the following alteration:
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>I can predict that if a <Christian> is a loan officer, and can only loan
>money to one of two potential borrowers, all other things being not too
>unequal, another <Christian> will receive the loan over an member of a
>group whose views the loan officer perceives as being hostile to his
>own, if both applicants make their metaphysical convictions known.
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> -KMO
Agreed. This is a particular instance of the general rule with which you disagreed, but your disagreement was not with common faith being a social/cultural lubricant or facilitant (as above), but with its utility being constrained to this purpose. Please furnish specific counterexamples as to how your particular faith aids your solitary creative efforts.
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher