[FoRK] "Where do beliefs come from daddy?"

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Luis Villa wrote:

> On Dec 15, 2007 2:56 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>> It was the
>> preposterousness of the beliefs themselves, the supporting materials,
>
> +1. I think the adjective he left out of 'supporting materials' was
> 'implausibility and self-contradictory nature'.
>
> (Didn't leave in the 'obnoxiousness' part of Jeff's comment because
> ...church... is composed of, on average, almost ridiculously nice  
> people.

+1

But you say that like "ridiculously nice" and "obnoxious" are exclusive.

They're not.  In fact, the former coupled with even a dash of "self- 
righteousness" as catalyst is a great recipe for the latter...

jb