Re: Christian morality: absolute?

Jim Bell (70672.1241@CompuServe.COM)
11 Jun 97 18:40:48 EDT

Russell Stewart erupts:

<<Because it's an affirmative claim, genius. Those are the rules, and they
always have been. You can't just pop up, say "this exists because I say
so. Prove me wrong!" and then smugly sit back and expect people to take
you seriously. Are you really that ignorant of the rules of rational
debate?>>

"Genius" should be capitalized.

<<That is not my burden, and it never has been. However, I am glad that you
have gone so far over the edge as to make this ridiculous demand. It makes
my job here a lot easier.>>

Job? But you were relegated to the intellectually unemployed when you began
this quixotic run. However, your inability to undertake an affirmative case
has been noted. This makes you an agnostic, not an atheist. I think that's
actually a good thing. Dogmatic atheism is impossible. And you certainly don't
want to assert the impossible, do you?

BTW, as an agnostic, you'd still better be careful. When I lived down South I
had some agnostics living next door to me, and one night they woke up with a
flaming question mark on their lawn.

Jim