RESULTS: Snake Challenge

Brian Dean errancy@infidels.org
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:18:15 -0400 (00932350695, 37924497.63C4C4DD@worldnet.att.net)



> > JoeM
> > They said that they would pray for a miracle to
> > happen in my life to convince me that God does
> > exist.
>
> ersatz
> Regardless of "miracles" (what would your
> definition be anyway, and why would the
> occurance of one indicate the existance of
> a God ... unless that is part of your chosen
> definition that is), would you care to make
> public record what WOULD convince you
> "that God does exist" ?
>
> I suspect that you would not be convinced
> by snake handling et al, any more than I
> would be convinced of becoming hindu by
> watching someone piercing their tongue and
> cheeks with steel spikes.
>
> At the end of the day, I'm pretty confident
> that the only way you could be "convinced
> that God does exist", is if He by His Spirit
> chose to "soften your heart" in that regard
> but until then, I doubt if you would be much
> in the way convincable even if an Angel
> should appear to you (you'd prolly just
> explain it away as an embarrasing mental
> episode of some sort, eh ?).
>
BRIDEAN I pray that the almighty Krishna will appear to you and "soften your heart" to convince you that Hinduism is the true path.
>
> You do have a "natural" explantion for
> everything that happens in this world if
> not universe after all, nu ?
>
> Anyway, never mind about those annoying
> "christian" types - heck, imagine how much
> it has pissed of those of Yahudi origin to have
> a yearly counting system relating to the
> "christian" thang. No escaping it now, and
> what would be the alternative - the equally
> as annoying Semetic (et al) system, huh ?
>
BRIDEAN Well, I will put ignorance of calendar systems as another Christian trait. Perhaps I should bring this up again every year of the dog. What's that you don't know what the year of the dog is? Well maybe it has something to do with the women who told Jesus that even "dogs eat the crumbs from the master's table". Since every calendar system HAS to be a Judeo-Christian one, maybe that's it!!
>
> No wonder you're so uptight - you've
> realised that Not Only to you have The
> Book to deal with, But Also the extra
> reality of The People of The Book, too.
>
> You're gonna have to be QUITE the
> revisionist to achieve your perfect
> world, I think.
>
> Gonna take a LOT of snakes, too.
>
BRIDEAN Do you mean the year of the snake?