Satan Disproves Christianity

[gilbertc06]

If the claimant himself doesn't believe the claim, rational people aren't going to consider it further.

Rational people dismiss the whole thing entirely unless the claimer gives evidence. The claimer can wholeheartedly believe something. Unless he provides evidence it isn't considered any further.

I applied the valid argument above to my religion and to these alleged gnomes, and my religion fared better.

You have done no such thing. Like you said yourself, accepting physical punishment for a belief does not make it valid. Just because someone actually has done so in your belief and none has done it in the gnome belief only chalks up one more idiot to your religion than the gnome believers. Bravo.

You're mad because your argument isn't very good, and you thought it was.

What argument are you talking about? I have no stake in the gnome claim. I think it is just as ridiculous as your god claim. Both groups have given no good reason to believe either of them is true. Whereas you are trying to somehow prove your god claim without any evidence (two thousand or so years in pending) and also trying to debunk the gnome claim that has about the same unstable structure as yours.

It's that simple. Heck, now you're to talking to the board cheerleader instead of to me directly.

Because you continue to dodge questions and or don't give sufficient answers at all.