(August 25, 2012 at 9:50 am)ThomM Wrote: However - when asked - you never get anything from THEM to support their statement - and that alone is enough to reject the christ.
It's interesting - and revealing - to take a cursory glance around the boards and count up all the occurrences of believers making some unsupported assertion or other, then complaining about unfair treatment when asked for evidence. Now compare that to all the times one of us heathen heretics makes reference to some biblical passage or inevitable consequence of their doctrine; then they absolutely can't settle until handed "book, chapter and verse" on a plate.
It's "Heads they win, tails we lose". Or Snakes And Ladders with greased rungs and imaginary dice.
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.'
