Yes I pick on all religions.

[Brian37]

I think this conversation might have a chance of going somewhere if you stopped caricaturing Frodo's position with obvious straw-men, Brian. God as conceived by "critical thinkers" is not as simple as an "invisible pink unicorn" or the "invisible sky hero theory." It's about as silly to say that as it is to characterize the theory of evolution as predicting and failing to produce crocoducks.

Don't decide for him or me what either of us should do or can handle. He is a big boy and so am I.

Now what you are failing to see is that this is not a "caricaturing" of anything.

He IS starting with a naked assertion. He is basing his claim on an ancient book. He is no different than anyone else with another god claim or different holy book.

He is simply not used to me cutting to the chase. If you want to walk down his yellow brick road in detail with him that is between you and him. I do not treat him any differently than I do anyone else with a different claim.

You simply do not like my word choice. That is a comfort issue on your part but it does not mean the longer dance on his part constitutes evidence.

You do not have to read far into Harry Potter or watch 3 hours of Star Wars to know there is nothing there. I do not do that for him or anyone .

You come to the table with EVIDENCE first, not claims not tradition not holy books. If you do I will cut to the chase every time.