(May 16, 2014 at 12:44 am)Last Things Wrote:(May 16, 2014 at 12:37 am)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: That's not my logic. If you watch tadpoles, they turn into frogs. If you watch cults, they (if they're successful) turn into religions.
However you want to argue it, you are saying that tadpoles become frogs and cults becomes religions. The example of the tadpoles becoming frogs has no bearing on the unsubstantiated claim that (successful) cults become religions. Such a claim requires evidence which tadpoles becoming frogs has nothing to do with.
It was just an analogy. Geez.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
