It's obvious how Lion IRC is making a fool of himself. The more important question is why.
Most likely he is manufacturing an excuse for not attempting the Outsider's Test of Faith.
As I have said before of fundamentalists, he is afraid of his inner atheist.
A few people have asked where is the quiz. There is no quiz. The OTF is supposed to apply equally to all religions. You bring the same degree of skepticism to your own religion's miracles and doctrines that you do to other religions.
If you are a Christian, you probably doubt several claims in Islam: that the Mohammed rode a winged horse from Mecca to Jerusalem in one night, that it is permissible to have four wives, that you should pray five times a day facing in the direction of Mecca, etc.
So what about the claim that Jesus walked on water and later floated up into the air? What about the teaching that you should sell all that you have and give it to the poor?
Most likely he is manufacturing an excuse for not attempting the Outsider's Test of Faith.
As I have said before of fundamentalists, he is afraid of his inner atheist.
A few people have asked where is the quiz. There is no quiz. The OTF is supposed to apply equally to all religions. You bring the same degree of skepticism to your own religion's miracles and doctrines that you do to other religions.
If you are a Christian, you probably doubt several claims in Islam: that the Mohammed rode a winged horse from Mecca to Jerusalem in one night, that it is permissible to have four wives, that you should pray five times a day facing in the direction of Mecca, etc.
So what about the claim that Jesus walked on water and later floated up into the air? What about the teaching that you should sell all that you have and give it to the poor?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
