(August 25, 2017 at 10:01 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Cyberman Wrote:It's really simple, which is convenient for the simple-minded. Xtians don't molest kids. Therefore anyone who does is not a xtian.
But even if that were valid, it wouldn't make them an unbeliever. Just a believer who doesn't meet their minimum standard for being a Christian. Unless the molester in the particular instance was actually an unbeliever, of course.
That would take nuance, shades of grey in a black and white world, and actually make some sense. You're forgetting who we're talking about here, I fear.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'