(April 4, 2013 at 6:37 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: a claim for the existence of a material creature cannot be properly compared to a claim for the existence of a transcendent immaterial creator god.
I agree.
(April 6, 2013 at 9:57 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Debate is not really a good way to know whether Christianity is true or not, because the winner in the debate is the one who can persuade ignorant people the most.
Congratulations, you just gave the most accurate description of religious indoctrination I've ever read.
(April 6, 2013 at 9:57 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Debate success is all about popular appeal, it is like an election, it proves nothing.
Would you still say that about debates in which your 'side' won? Assuming there are any, obviously.
(April 6, 2013 at 9:57 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Christianity is an intricate and deep philosophical system that was not made to win an election or a popularity contest, it was made to enlighten the earnest soul who will seek of it on its own terms.
If I didn't know better, I might say that this is in contradiction to your first statement by way of special pleading.
(April 6, 2013 at 9:57 pm)jstrodel Wrote: That said, Richard Dawkins is a fool
Oh dear, must I really quote my favourite bible verse again?
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.'
