In anycase, there is one thing you should know about me. You may think I'm wrong, butI am clearly not ignorant. That option is not available to you.
True. There’s a third option:Loftus is both wrong and ignorant.
I appreciate Loftus drawingour attention to the false dichotomy. It’s not as if we’re forced to choosebetween his either being wrong or ignorant, when it’s clearly a both/andsituation.
I have studied with the bestand the brightest…
The fact that a teacher isthe best and the brightest doesn’t make his student the best and the brightest.A teacher’s intellectual distinction doesn’t automatically rub off on thestudent. You can have mediocre students of terrific teachers.
Stu will be missed, just likeKantzer and Feinberg before him. It's too bad they will never know they werewrong. They will never know they were on the wrong side of history.
In other words, since Loftusdenies the afterlife, dead Christians will never know they were wrong.
Of course, if the Christianafterlife is true, then dead Christian won’t know they were wrong because deathwill confirm that they were right all along. They will live with Christ.
Conversely, if the Christianafterlife is false, then dead infidels will never know they were right–for onceyou’re dead, the decedent is in no position to know anything, one way or theother.
If Loftus is on the rightside of history, then when he dies he will never know that he was on the rightside of history. By his own lights, dead Christians won’t know that they wereon the wrong side of history while dead infidels won’t know that they were onthe right side of history. So what difference does it make to eitherparty–given his assumptions?
For that matter, how could living infidelsknow if they are on the right side of history? They’re not living on the futureside of history. They only know the past. So they don’t know how the story willturn out, do they? History is only over a day at a time. That's a long wait.
What good will it be to deadinfidels to know (before they die) that they were on the right side of history?Where’s the consolation in that? These are the beggarly scraps that infidelstake comfort in–like a dog gnawing a bare bone.
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