I think you are trying to give the impression that I am writing off any intellectual effort I am not. What I am likening your position to is the man who knows he must eat and intimately knows the facts about digestion but won't actually open the door to the Ocado man because he has made the intellectual effort and that is sufficient.
My Christianity is agreed, there are other christians. Most people who poo poo this have never and are not prepared to travel the routes, and there is an intellectual basis in standard reasoning. The philosophicaleffort is not neglected in theism and christianity whereas in New Atheism it has been arbitrarily dismissed in favour of scientism and argumentum ad ridiculum
Two perfectly simple questions and, as ever, all we get in return is a barrage of straw men, derail attempts, incoherence and general gibberish - anything,
anything but finally attempt at least a simple answer or two. The reasonable response to this relentless idiocy would perhaps be to think, "what a ****" but increasingly I'm thinking that someone who lies so consistently to others is probably lying to himself with equal ease. Somewhere inside there must be I'd have thought at least a little voice that says, "yikes - good question both. How should I avoid them?" before throwing as much logical illiteracy as possible at them so as to protect the "precious belief that must never be questioned". Never. Never, never, never. That I think is why all we ever get is the Violet Elizabeth Bott act - "It'th twoo I tell you". Vlad seems to me to be as lied
by himself as everyone else here is lied to by him.
Rather sad really.
