On Sun, 24 May 1998 08:42:48 -0500, Glenn R. Morton wrote:
>>>SJ>Well how about it Glenn? "Do you go regularly to church? Do you
>>>>read the Bible and pray regularly? Do you pray for your `enemies' like
>>>>Morris, Gish, Ross and Johnson?"
>>GM>Yes actually I do pray for them and for the day that Christians will
>>>cease running from observational facts like chickens run from foxes.
>SJ>I find this vague answer unconvincing. I will from now on assume that:
>>
>>1. You don't "go regularly to church"
>>2. You don't "read the ible and pray regularly"
>>3. You don't "pray for your `enemies' like Morris, Gish, Ross and
>>Johnson"
>>
>>If I am wrong in the above assumptions, please say so. Otherwise,
>>whenever you attack Christian apologists destructively I may remind
>>those reading your posts of these facts so they can know where you are
>>coming from.
GM>This is an excellent example of your tendency to jump to a conclusion that
>you want to believe in spite of the fact that I explicitly mentioned my
>church attendance. Not only are you wrong, in all of the above, your logic
>in getting to the conclusion you do is highly flawed. One cannot conclude
>from a positive statement that I pray for Morris, Gish et al, that I don't
>pray for Morris, Gish et al., that I don't go to church and that I don't
>read the Bible. This is called a non sequitor. It is something that you
>should look up in a logic text. And no this is not an ad hominem.
I said "regularly". I will ask you one more time:
Do you go *regularly* to church? Do you read the Bible and pray *regularly*?
Do you pray for your `enemies' like Morris, Gish, Ross and Johnson?
It is no crime if you don't *regularly* go to church, or read the Bible and pray
*regularly*. But it is a bit naughty to keep evading the question. How about
a simple "yes" or "no" (Mt 5:37).
And if you don't go *regularly* to church, *regularly* read the Bible and pray
*regularly*, then it does weaken somewhat the `moral high ground' that is
such a feature of your destructive posts against Christian apologists.
After this last chance, I will definitely assume that:
1. You don't "go regularly to church"
2. You don't "read the ible and pray regularly"
3. You don't "pray for your `enemies' like Morris, Gish, Ross and Johnson"
Steve
"Evolution is the greatest engine of atheism ever invented."
--- Dr. William Provine, Professor of History and Biology, Cornell University.
http://fp.bio.utk.edu/darwin/1998/slides_view/Slide_7.html
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