(August 22, 2011 at 2:45 pm)Godnose Wrote: I don't understand why I "have to show" anything. I am not making a point or presenting an argument, I am asking a question. Well, two questions I guess, a primary one (I suppose) and what would you call it? A "contingent" one?
Of course you don't have to show anything, but if you are going to assert it is a matter of opinion, it would help if you showed exactly how it is a matter of opinion or showed that there was something on the other side of the coin.
(August 22, 2011 at 2:45 pm)Godnose Wrote: & I reckon there's plenty of room for opinion in both those questions.
Sure, people can have opinions about it, but facts are facts. Name a bunch of things that the church provides to society as a whole and I will name ways people do it without the church. There is no room for opinion there.
