(September 27, 2012 at 8:28 am)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: Also, can I take it from your thread title that you believe in Gods existence?
No you cannot. You are entitled to enquire if Tegh believes in such, but you are not entitled to take his words and twist them to suit your own ends. It's not just an honesty issue, it's plain common courtesy. You wouldn't appreciate having your words manipulated in such a way, would you?
It ought to be blatantly obvious that when an atheist or similar nonbeliever speaks about things that God is supposed to have done, or what would Jesus do, such references come with an unwritten disclaimer to the effect of "if it were to exist". This is rarely spelled out in full because it's just too cumbersome to have to do so, particularly when the context is understood.
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.'
