The one I saw on Nancy Buttons that I liked was "Who are you to contradict your God's wish that I not believe in him" Or "My personal relationship with God is just fine; It's his fan clubs I can't stand" BTW I noticed SKZB use a semi colon in Issola. This is probably the first time I've ever seen one used, have I used it correctly here? :-) Mark -----Original Message----- From: Nytemuse [mailto:nytemuse at auros.org] Sent: 18 February 2003 00:02 To: Dragaera Mailing List Subject: Re: Good books generally (was: Literary Disappointments) On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Andrew Lias wrote: > >I stay as far away from most fundamentalists as I can, but I would > >think > >just the opposite. Close textual analysis may indicate contradictions and > >inconsistencies, and the idea that there would be contradictions and > >inconsistencies is anathema to people who believe that God dictated the > >Bible and that its every word is law. > > At the risk of touching off a flamewar, my experience with > fundamentalists > would suggest that they do, indeed, read all of the passages most closely in > order that they might then explain all the inconsistencies away. Not that I'm trying to add to a flamewar, but the fundamentalists I've come across read a lot, but either don't read enough or don't think about what they've read. Personally, I prefer to use the "If God is omnipotent, can he create a boulder too heavy for him to lift?" And the variations thereof. Obviously it's nowhere near a good argument, but at least you know that's one question they can never answer! ****** NyteMuse "Call her life unnatural, feel her undead breath. Color her black for sorcery, color her gray for death." AIM: NyteMuse139 / ICQ: #21966269 (NyteMuse) MSN: NyteMuse / Yahoo!ID: NyteMuse http://www.crowfire.com