PhilGoetz comments on Anti-rationality quotes - Less Wrong

7 Post author: PhilGoetz 17 April 2009 05:55PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 April 2009 03:15:52AM *  0 points [-]

Do you have the impression that the LW community underestimates the tendency of Christianity to suppress curiosity and rationality?

Some do, based on some comments in "Marketing rationalism", as I already explained.

I responded to your comment by deleting quotes from people who were not among the 1 or 2 most influential Christian theologians of their century (excluding the papal condemnation quote, which is famous in its own right).

Comment author: gjm 17 April 2009 06:55:54PM 0 points [-]

I don't believe Spurgeon was a particularly influential Christian theologian. (An influential Christian preacher, for sure.)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 April 2009 07:16:51PM 1 point [-]

You may be right, but that's too fine a distinction for me to make without putting more thought into it than I have time for now. He is the least-important figure on the list, but is still regularly quoted in sermons today.

Comment author: lavalamp 17 April 2009 07:06:29PM 0 points [-]

...and today his sermons are even harder to read/understand than the kjv.