[King Prout]

Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make confident assertions [quoting 1Ti. 1:7].

St. Augustine makes an excellent point, one which the Creos here and elsewhere really need ot consider.

Case in point: I was led to accept the existence of a deity last June. The "conversion" process was quite personal, and not valid as proof for use to convince anyone else: It suffices that it was sufficient to convince *me*. The process left me with little firm understanding of the specifics of this deity. And EVERY SINGLE TIME one of our "special" friends here spouts genesis-literalism, my interest in pursuing understanding of deity *in their direction* wanes ever further.

In this manner, by "defending" their God with absurdities and fallacy, they work *against* one of their creed's principal tenets.

[Virginia-American]

In this manner, by "defending" their God with absurdities and fallacy, they work *against* one of their creed's principal tenets.

On the "Intelligent design legislation in New York reborn" thread, taxesareforever said

You mean "past" president. [Henry M. Morris] has gone to heaven.

To which I replied:

Maybe, maybe not.

My opinion would be quite the opposite, since he did more than almost anyone else (with the possible exception of Jack Chick) to alienate people from Christ.

They really do hurt their own cause.

[courtesy ping to taxesareforever]