(July 19, 2015 at 1:14 pm)robvalue Wrote: They so often forget that he's playing both sides.
It is the same kind of forgetting of details that leads to the idiotic argument about "free will" being the cause of evil in the world. They forget about heaven when they bring up that pile of manure, as otherwise they would see that it cannot be the solution to the problem in their story. (Not to mention the other reasons "free will" does not solve the problem.)
The ability to forget bits of their own story seems essential to them being able to believe their stupid story. The patches that they apply to their story involve contradicting other parts of their story.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
