teknomom

Also, an appeal to authority is only valid if all authorities are in agreement. When authorities do not agree, appealing only to the ones that support our own view is no proof of anything.

Someone gave me a good analogy to use whenever someone uses the “it’s been done this way for [insert timespan], so it can’t be wrong” argument. The white-collar criminals at Enron did their business for a long time before they were caught. Should we have allowed them to continue just because they had been at it for so long? Of course not. Likewise, no matter how long an unbiblical teaching has been universally accepted, we are obligated to oppose it when we learn about it.

PS: the nice quotes are done with what’s called in html a blockquote tag. Any html tag takes the form text to be affected (but without the spaces; had to do it that way or it wouldn’t show the symbols). So to make quoted text, you’d put

text to be quoted

(again, without the spaces).