(January 25, 2013 at 3:32 pm)Drich Wrote: -Or he will look at what has been said and study it, who knows may even change his perspective, and with the clout that the words of a legitmate/ordained preacher brings, may help bring change to his whole denomination.
In other words, multiplying by zero. Preachers, ordained or otherwise, don't have clout, they have opinion. Why should an opinion of such a person carry any weight over that of anyone else, merely by virtue of their expressing it?
Besides which, I could count the number of theists who have changed their perspective on Abu Hamza's bad hand.
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.'
