(August 20, 2014 at 2:36 am)PhiloTech Wrote:(August 20, 2014 at 2:29 am)Michael Wrote: I'm smiling at the idea that people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, G.K.Chesterton, George Whitfield, William Booth, John Wycliffe, William Wilberforce, Arthur Eddington, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Wesley and Elizabeth Fry lacked character.
Never said religion meant one lacked character. None of these people lived in an atheistic age.
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All those people lived into the twentieth century. Desmond Tutu is still alive. So...
What the fuck are you talking about?
And "going on hunches" is what people "compelled by faith" do. So, maybe you should stop doing that.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza