Re: Why do people laugh at atheists?

Barry OGrady <god_free_jones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 09 May 2008 09:42:21 GMT, Dave Oldridge
> <doldridg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
> 
>>Barry OGrady <god_free_jones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 12:31:51 GMT, Dave Oldridge
>>> <doldridg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
>>> 
>>>>>>>>
> 
>>>>But apparently you cannot bend your fundy mind around the idea that
>>>>a living tradition, while somewhat informed by Scripture, is not 
>>>>necessarily a slave to it or a slave to any particular private 
>>>>interpretation of it.
>>> 
>>> Tradition does not equal truth.
>>
>>I never said it did.  But, in the absence of other "truth," it is
>>often better than just guessing.
> 
> Only if you must have an answer, but that is the way the creationists
> work.

Maybe it's escaped your notice, but the creationists insist on their own 
answer despite evidence that it is wrong.


> 
>>>>>>Inquiring minds want to know.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Christians don't have inquiring lines.
>>>>
>>>>I don't understand this lie. What do you mean by "inquiring lines?"
>>> 
>>> I don't know what was on my line, er mind, when I wrote that.
>>
>>You have a mind?
> 
> There is a rumour to that effect.

I don't place too much stock in unsubstantiated rumors.

>>Sure had me fooled! Congratulations -- on a near 
>>perfect emulation of a self-made moron.
> 
> As a Christian you would blame God for that.

I'm not a Calvinist.  You have free will, and therefore the ability to 
make yourself a moron if you choose.

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