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- From: jfelder@lerc.nasa.gov (James L. Felder)
- Subject: Re: BELIEVERS: WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU NOT BELIEVE IN GOD?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:40:32 GMT
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- In article <1jaa81INNfk1@kralizec.zeta.org.au>, mikeh@kralizec.zeta.org.au
- (Michael Hore) wrote:
- >
- > He draws an analogy with marriage, which I could paraphrase:
- > Say I've got a reasonably healthy marriage relationship, if
- > someone tells me they saw my wife flirting with someone else,
- > I might be "logical" to start to examine all the evidence,
- > but I wouldn't be a very good husband. I know my wife, and
- > know she wouldn't do that. To entertain those sorts of
- > doubts would just mean lack of trust.
- >
-
- Yes, but to make the anology complete, what if that someone had pictures of
- your wife in her birthday suit with some else not you. This is more the
- case with Xianity. We have the "pictures" of an inconsistent, mean
- spirited, genocidal god in the bible. We don't just say that there are
- things in the bible that make the Xian god unbelievable without examples to
- back it up, evidence the number of biblical quotations by atheist in this
- group.
-
- The come back by the Xians is usually of the order of, well yes that is my
- wife, but she's not really having an affair with that guy. No let me tell
- you what those pictures really mean. They mean .... What follows is
- usually a lot of tap dancing trying to put a coherent story together. When
- all else fails, well then its a "mystery" as to what she was doing with
- that guy stark naked in that motel room, but it was definitely NOT an
- affair. "I have Faith in my wife, she would never do that". |-(
-
- Like our former president says "trust, but verify".
-
- James L. Felder (216)891-4019 -My opinions are MINE-
- Sverdrup Technology, Inc. jfelder@lerc.nasa.gov I think that should
- NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland 44135 cover all bases,
- don't you.
-
- "Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge -
- other people gargle"
-