The Last Round on Christianity

Sorry to drag out the "Christian" debate, but neither do I like letting the opposition have the last word. In fairness I should have clarified my stance, in my first letter. I don't claim to be rational, especially as regards matters of common- sense, nor do I aspire to be so. At present I am perfecting a philosophy of irrationalism - or better - arationalism (cf immoral, amoral), which takes a warm and tolerant but strictly realistic view of rationalism. I believe in God, and the Bible because it is the only thing that makes nonsense of life, the most bizarre philosophies after this, are, by comparison homely and earth-bound. So! In the happy mental anarchy of my Irish extraction, I continue. Seriously tho', I may write irrationally but it doesn't mean I am stupid.

So, to your letter, Gary. You said: Christians do not use common sense - right? Therefore you would abandon commonsense on the same ground, exams or Christianity; the same test should apply - right? And I said that there might be a case for using commonsense when the practice was consequential (exams) and a time for abandoning common-sense in such cases where this was inconsequential, or, at least, had outlived its usefulness.

"Isaiah" if you must know, was used as metonomy, like if I said "have you got wheels?" You don't need to go checking my autonomy, you know I'm referring to the whole car. I also referred to Isaiah for his direct, unsentimental approach, another correspondent referred to Isaiah's regard for frank, rational discussion. He also has the utmost scorn for the overprivileged and powerful, and of course would abhor any religion tending the least bit towards polytheism and worship of images - God knows whose side he'd take in this debate. But that's another issue...

And why refer to the prophets instead of the Christians on compus, about whom we are really talking? Only in that the one in their writings, the others in their sayings, have a bit in common ...tho' I won't go into detail now. (Actually the 'you' in the last sentence of my letter was metronomic too, referring not just to you Gary, but to everyone writing exams. Sorry not to clarify that).

Next week I shall discuss the paradox 'God is not religious', a central axiom of my philosophy (deeper than you think), and YHWH, or 'did God invent the meaningless acronym?' I also think I might stop sheltering behind pseudonyms, seeing as Herrington has never done so.