[Milton-L] Justify God?

[richard strier]

Some nits are bigger than others.  And the idea that the 
angels on a pin is a nit is one of the many fallacies foisted 
on the world by the admirable but in many ways anti-
intellectual crowd that we call "humanists" (see C. S. Lewis 
on "The New Learning and the New Ignorance" in his volume of 
the OHEL).  

Stereotypes should not be endorsed, even second-hand.  
Countering them is worth some energy (though you have more 
energy for this list than I do). 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:18:27 -0400
>From: "Carol Barton" <cbartonphd1 at verizon.net>  
>Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Justify God?  
>To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-
l at lists.richmond.edu>
>
&gt;I said that was the contemporary view, Richard--not mine.
&gt;
&gt;Can we--please--stop nit-picking one another to death 
now?
&gt;
&gt;Some of us don't have the time or the energy to count the 
angels 
&gt;dancing on the heads of these pins.
&gt;
&gt;Carol Barton 
&gt;
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Richard Strier
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University of Chicago
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