How is the balance between boys and girls maintained?

[Elok]

I take it that this is your challenge to the evidence I gave for the existence of God.

Instead of offering additional evidence you chose to argue that God doesn't exist. I no longer consider you a christian and neither should anyone else. I'm assuming that you will continue to argue that God doesn't exist as I intend to continue arguing that He does and you are hell bent on arguing with me about everything.

As for your point ... rubbish.

Logic is not your strong point. I'm attacking your harebrained "arguments" for God, not your belief in God itself. If you can even call them arguments; you're just throwing a vague, ill-defined sense of personal incredulity against the cosmos and seeing if anyone expects it to stick.

Well I gotta tell you I never did accept your afgument that you can decide which parts of the Bible to believe or disbelieve. I thought to myself that you might not be a real christian, not in the same sense that I am. You see I have faith in God, and you really don't. You have faith in your stomach (if we can call that faith). Your stomach tells you to believe this verse and don't believe that verse. But since I have faith in God I believe every single word in His Holy Scriptures.

Let's have no more silly pretending about that. You have, for the moment, decided to hang an "as endorsed by JESUS!" sign on your preexisting personal philosophy of misanthropic paranoia--or is it paranoid misanthropy? Whatever you call that thing where you express your contempt for large swaths of humanity based on no logical criterion and then adopt a whole system of thought to justify said contempt. Anyway, you've simply repackaged your own ideas in a Christian dress, modified the language to suit, and "interpreted" scripture, or what you know of it, to fit. In other words, you're about as Christian as China is Communist. All of the style (worn prominently on the sleeve), none of the substance.

Threads like this are not you "speaking God's Word," or spreading the Good News, or whatever you call it. They're an opportunity for you to say something daft and obtuse, have people respond with ridicule, and then rub one out with self-satisfaction about being the only person clever enough to understand the fatuous truths you've concocted. Now, whether in your heart of hearts you actually have yourself convinced that all this balderdash is somehow a glory to God instead of a desperate shame to yourself--that, I don't know. But I don't buy it.

Oh, and cut it out with the "oh how can you attack a gentle, meek fellow Christian" schtick. That's BK's schtick. It almost worked for him sometimes because he was superficially polite, so you almost felt bad before logic kicked in and you said "oh yeah, he's an oil-slicked lying hypocrite!" With you, it's simply ridiculous on the surface. You're not a pious brother, you're an abusive troll who insults everyone (including several of my friends) indiscriminately and without cause, then tries to hide behind Jesus for a while before sallying out again to call us all hacks, jackasses, dicks, etc.

[Kidlicious]

The Bible is divinely inspired, and only the Church can interpret it correctly.

But Elok only believes the parts that he wants to. It's got nothing to do with his church's interpretations. It has to do with arguing with me on the internet.

[Elok]

Al is an ex-Muslim atheist with no firsthand experience of Christianity. His ideas about scripture, AFAICT, are Islamic precepts regarding the Koran transferred to Christianity without thought. They make perfect sense for Muslims, and none at all for Christians.

I'm guessing Kidicious believes that rabbits chew cud?

Actually, while rabbits don't chew cud (in the sense of regurgitated vegetable matter), they do chew "pellets." Since they don't have multiple stomachs to digest cellulose efficiently the way ruminants do, the grass and such pass right through in the form of a rough green paste out the backdoor--which Fluffy then turns around and scoops right back up for a second round through the pipes. I don't know all the details, but I picked that up from Watership Down. Edutainment

Also, hares aren't rabbits.

[Elok]

I'm gonna judge by your actions. When was the last time you gave evidence for the existence of God when someone asked for it? When was the last time you argued on the side of atheists that God doesn't exist?

I don't argue with atheists because they invariably demand that you play by their rules, ie a stacked deck. There's no proof I, or possibly even God, could give that they would accept. In all fairness, the same is true the other way around; they can't possibly "disprove" God. All in all, arguing religion is fruitless. I don't think anyone was ever converted purely by argument.

I have never argued against the existence of God at all. That's just your really bad reading skills talking.

[Kidlicious]

Elok, you haven't argued against my evidence. All you've done is be a pissy little *****. So what is your argument against my evidnce?

[Elok]

But Elok only believes the parts that he wants to. It's got nothing to do with his church's interpretations. It has to do with arguing with me on the internet.

You don't even know what my church believes, you goof.

[Elok]

Elok, you haven't argued against my evidence. All you've done is be a pissy little *****. So what is your argument against my evidnce?

What evidence? You haven't presented any evidence at all.

[Kidlicious]

I don't argue with atheists because they invariably demand that you play by their rules, ie a stacked deck. There's no proof I, or possibly even God, could give that they would accept.

I have never argued against the existence of God at all. That's just your really bad reading skills talking.

You've argued against evidence for the existence of God. Period. You are a coward. Have the guts to say what you really are and take a stand for it you coward.

[Kidlicious]

What evidence? You haven't presented any evidence at all.

Even scientists agree that it's evidence you dumb ass. You're a ****ing moron.

[Elok]

I'm an Orthodox Christian with cognitive abilities above the third-grade level.

[Elok]

Even scientists agree that it's evidence you dumb ass. You're a ****ing moron.

I repeat: what evidence? Your unsupported sense of incredulity is not evidence. Any scientist who calls it evidence is himself evidence of the failure of peer review.

[Kidlicious]

You don't even know what my church believes, you goof.

How do you know that? It's on the internet.

[Elok]

You don't know what your OWN church believes.

[Kidlicious]

I repeat: what evidence? Your unsupported sense of incredulity is not evidence. Any scientist who calls it evidence is himself evidence of the failure of peer review.

I'veposted the evidence you stupid bastard. If youdisagree say what's wrong with it you coward.

[Kidlicious]

You don't know what your OWN church believes.

blah blah blah.

Say something worth a **** you coward.