RE: Why Christianity?
August 19, 2015 at 2:14 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2015 at 2:17 am by Kaninchen.)
(August 18, 2015 at 7:24 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: If you've been paying attention, you will have noticed that at no time during her membership in this forum (prompted by her truly unfortunate suspension at CAF for the same empty snarkiness we're witnessing here) has kaninchen ever bothered to take one of my posts apart by quoting scholars, scripture, popular articles or any other source she could possibly use to demonstrate the validity of her own position. This is because she has no position. That's not why she's here.
Heaven's Randy, stop being petulent, I'm here to share the benefits of having enjoyed watching CAF's answer to Glengarry, Glen Ross for so long.
You see, Randy, it's not that you're the worst apologist I've come across in 20 years of discussing religion on the Internet or, even, that you're the most useless or most pretentious. It's your complete lack of self-awareness, together with the interpersonal responsiveness of an old-fashioned 'speak-your-weight' machine, that makes you so entertaining.
Above all, though, it's the contradictions - the man who sells religion as a product with the devotion and effortless charm of an Apple/Android fanboi on a smartphone review site reveals more about himself than he imagines.
Randy, you're not a believer, you're a man who bought a product and desperately tries to re-convince himself every day by copying and pasting the product specifications.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
