[lbo-talk] Re: An Appeal to Ignorance

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> At 02:31 PM 6/13/2005, BklynMagus wrote:
> >Dear List:
> >
> >Kelley asks:
> >
> > > How is religion a form of inquiry?
> >
> >Buddha himself said that Buddhist should always
> >question what he taught until thay can satisfy
> >themselves through empirical experimentation that
> >it is true.
> 
> 
> And what happens when you find you're not satisfied and come to believe 
> what he says isn't true?
> 
> 
> Kelley

Then you've rejected the truth. 
Like Swift said, "It is useless to attempt to reason a man (sic) out of a 
thing he was never reasoned into."

John T.