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To: Mad Dawg

You said: some prefer darkness

....and claim it’s the light, wishing to drag the rest of us into the pit with them.


457 posted on 07/27/2008 2:57:38 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (A vote for third party is a vote for nObama)
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To: big'ol_freeper
....and claim it’s the light,

IF
You start with the notion that reason is so depraved that it cannot be relied upon
AND
   IF
   You claim thereafter to "reason" from Scripture or from anything else
   ELSEIF
   You claim anything at all for your discourse other than ecstatic utterance

THEN
Your auditors can expect nothing firm to be built on so self-negating a foundation.

BUT
having forsaken reason, you do get to frustrate communication, inhibit learning, and spread darkness and its emotional concomitants by misinterpreting anything that is said to you. Context and such considerations amount to appeals to reason, but reason was abandoned at the starting gate.

Consequently there is little to no possibility of real conversation, but plenty for polemics and insult and the like.

(But God works best where there is little to no possibility -- Can these bones live?)

459 posted on 07/27/2008 3:06:40 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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