Prayer Challenge Update
Mark L. Bakke errancy@infidels.org
Sun, 02 May 1999 13:29:01 -0400 (00925684141, 372C8B5D.BACDE2D1@bakkster.com)
>> BAKKE
>> Final note: When I attempted to send my opponent a message confirming
>> that the prayer challenge deadline had come and gone with no revelation,
>> I got back an error message saying that his e-mail account no longer
>> exists. Imagine that.
>
> DF:
> Obviously god responded but your evil heart doesn't want to acknowledge it.
BAKKE
Yeah, you know the deal about skeptics, right? We actually *do*
believe, but just aren't willing to admit it. [retch]
> DF:
> Or maybe god will do it in his good time, or maybe god is testing
> people's faith, or maybe....
BAKKE
Of course, it's difficult to see how an infinite and omnipotent being
would be constrained by time (or even have any real concept of time).
It's also difficult to see what such a being could achieve by "testing"
anything. He would already know the outcome of such a test even before
it was conducted.
> DF:
> Hey, I have a great money making idea. Get all the xians to form a civil
> engineering firm. They can offer to move mountains and hills at 50 %
> off. They just tell the mountains & hills to be thou moved.
BAKKE
And, then, when the mountain stays put, they just blame the people who
hired them for their faithlessness.
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