(March 24, 2015 at 2:38 am)robvalue Wrote: You are right, that would be the logical conclusion for christians. It has actually happened before as well, a woman killed her kid to "send it to heaven". Luckily most christians don't really believe it and would rather risk their child going to hell.
It shows how dangerous this kind of magical thinking can be.
Ah, the joys of cognitive dissonance. You show them the logical conclusions of their wacky beliefs, and they start backpeddling, acting like they don't believe those things...
...until the next conversation, where they'll totally say they believe those things, until someone walks them through it, again. You think that'd be a warning flag.
