(October 30, 2015 at 2:33 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Special Pleading: When everyone else who ever claimed to be a Prophet (like, say Joseph Smith or David Koresh) or other "chosen one" (for whatever other woo-woo we're discussing), they were all false, and the people who believed them were idiots taken in by a charlatan...This is not an example of special pleading
...but not Paul! He did miracles! He's not like those other charlatans that other people believed, in all those other religions I don't agree with!
This is an example of a apples to oranges compareson... again Koresh and Smith RAN when challenged with their beliefs, Paul endured, Paul faced his accusors in what ever offical public forum they demanded so that he may present what he believed in full. Which is why he was beaten, bloodied and imprisioned so much.
When confronted Smith took his core believers and ran to a desolate part of utah so as to be able to practice his religion unchallenged.
Koresh also isolated himself in a desolate part of the country/texas, and when he was challenged rather than face public scrutiny he killed all of his followers and himself then burn everything so that we could never know what he truly believed...
Can you truly not see a difference their?
