(May 21, 2013 at 12:21 pm)John V Wrote: He's neither taking delight in the description nor giving it in a psychopathic manner.
I disagree entirely.
(May 21, 2013 at 12:21 pm)John V Wrote: Feel free to explain. The touché seemed to be agreement that it's atheists who drone on about hell.
Well, if you simply didn't understand, I apologize for my remark. It did appear, however, that you were taking the piss, as the English say.
The touché was agreeing that it is atheists that tend to drone on about hell here, but that was irrelevant to my point, which was that Christians seem to be unconcerned with the effect that telling people they're going to hell has.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell