More of Matt's Rantings
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 12:35:57 -0700 (00908152557, 2.2.32.19981011193557.008ab768@midwest.net)
At 10:20 AM 10/11/98 +0100, Matthew Bell wrote:
>> NANCY
>> >This entitles you to all the testyness you care to exhibit.
>> >
>>
>> TILL
>> Do you by chance mean "testiness"? If so, I prefer testiness to temper
>> tantrums like those we are seeing from Matt Bell when things don't go his
>way.
>
>M.BELL
>There is no 'temper tantrum' being exhibited by myself. The imporant matter of
>Biblical inerrancy with regard to the passage under discussion IS going my way.
>You have revealed in this thread your true nature when confronted with sound
>argumentation. My list is doing reasonably well, despite your attempts to
>disrupt it. Things are going well.
>>
TILL
I suspect that you even think that you have won every engagement on the
Errancy list, but I also suspect that those who have been here all through
your tenure see it differently. As someone recently asked about the CCBE
members," Are these people even in touch with reality?" Anyway, the debate
on the Egyptian plagues is far from over, so I advise you to give serious
consideration to a biblical proverb: "Let not the one who puts on his armor
boast like the one who takes it off" (1 Kings 20:11).
>> NANCY
>> >Your initial claim was that you were helping. Now it
>> >seems more like you are saying you are making sure
>> >Matt doesn't make you look bad to the CCBE list.
>>
>> TILL
>> Not at all. I was able to see from the postings that were forwarded to me
>> that you people are in serious need of help. As one member of errancy
>> asked, "Are these people in touch with reality?" Since I know from my own
>> personal experience what biblicism can do for people, I enjoy helping people
>> caught in the shackles of religious superstition find their way out. Just
>> this afternoon, I received a phone call from a Christian in Norway who saw
>> some of my articles on the web site of *The Skeptical Review,* and he called
>> to ask if I would be willing to help him during a difficult time that he is
>> having with doubts about the Bible. It seems that when he was an exchange
>> student in Texas, he was converted to the Church of Christ, so upon seeing
>> in my articles that I had come from the same background, he thought I might
>> be willing to help him. I was glad to tell him that I would. I'll try to
>> help you too Nancy if you can ever make yourself take that first step toward
>> the realization that you are basing your life on the superstitions of an
>> ancient group of nomads who thought that God lived in a tent that they
>> carried around with them.
>
>M.BELL
>I'll tell you what Farrell, here is a challenge for you. Let him address the
>issues he found in TSR with myself? Let him hear how someone who is working
>through every article in TSR thinks, rather your own embittered experiences?
>How about it Farrell, you know my name, and address. I can provide my phone
>number aswell.
>>
TILL
Sure, I don't mind letting him address the issues in TSR with someone who
doesn't even know the difference in "myself" and "me." This person has
indicated to me that he has been reading TSR articles on its web site, so he
has already seen something that he apparently considers worth further
consideration. I would be delighted to have him see how you stumble all
over yourself in trying to defend biblical inerrancy, so when he contacts me
by e-mail (as he said yesterday that he would do), I am going to suggest
that he *ubscribe to the errancy list. In the state of mind that he is now
in, you and the other bunglers who try to defend the Bible will only hasten
him along the road to intellectual honesty. As I have said many times
before, Matt, you biblicists are the Bible's worst enemy, and you don't have
enough sense to recognize it. I wish we had a dozen more like you on
Errancy. Do you think you could persuade all of your CCBE members to come
aboard and actively participate?
>
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net