(September 24, 2012 at 7:39 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(September 24, 2012 at 7:05 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Common Christian reply options I've seen:
1. "That's not true"
2. "Your exaggerating the parallels"
3. "Actually, these religions didn't come first/were later modified"
I'm disappointed too. Internet xtians seem to be an umimaginative breed. I've been loking forward to the Justin Martyr "diabolical mimicry" defence; the Devil time-travelled and pre-emptively set up 'pagan' religions to confuse everyone but the True Faithful™.
Come on, xtians - put a bit of effort into the game.
But how's Satan suppose find time to set up pagan religions if he's so busy planting evidence for evolution?
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
