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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Micheal, Here is the exact, unavoidable version of the analogy you keep sidestepping. Imagine a heartfelt company-wide email from a... -
NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Calling the analogy “terrible” is not an answer; it just avoids the test. You say to treat Galatians as a “love letter.” Fine. Make the...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Calling the analogy “ridiculous” isn’t an argument; it’s a dodge. Genre labels don’t defeat observable functions. A document can be a...
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When you “discipline” claims “by restricting” them such that they do not take account of author subjectivity, you ignore all emotive...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Nothing in my method “ignores” emotion. Emotion is itself publicly checkable when it leaves marks in a text: vocatives (“O foolish...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Micheal, A company-wide email goes out: “This policy is not from HR; it is from the Board. Any manager who teaches otherwise is out of...
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We have nothing to be found in Paul's work that stands out as possibly divinely inspired, that it is not the work of man. We have many...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.What you call “purposefully ignorant” is simply the only defensible way to make public claims: restrict yourself to what the artifact...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.No, Michael. Restricting claims to what can be publicly checked in the document is not “ignoring the person,” it is refusing to invent...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.No, Michael. I acknowledged the emotion explicitly—“O foolish Galatians…,” the rebukes, the urgency—and I treated it correctly: as tone...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.I have taken the emotive register into account; Galatians contains obvious emotion (“O foolish Galatians…”, sharp rebukes, urgency)...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Bare assertion is not an argument. The question is whether the text exhibits operations that define polemic. Galatians names rivals...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.No, it’s a direct summary of your repeated move. You concede the text exhibits the operations that define a polemic—named rivals...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.You’ve conflated two different claims and then treated their blur as a refutation. My “must” is not a metaphysical necessity; it is the...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.A “full-account” is not a feeling; it’s an explanation that makes the observed features more likely than rival explanations. To count as...
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