(August 24, 2014 at 2:19 am)snowtracks Wrote: well, I have never been 'spoken' to like that before.
That could be part of the problem. You're not used to being questioned.
And the moment I find anything by Dawkins, Krauss, de Grasse Tyson et al saying anything even remotely similar to "if you don't listen to me you'll be punished and you'll deserve it", you bet I'll quote it.
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.'