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Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
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Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:54:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Brendan Powell Smith writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> > You had me right up until the facetiousness.
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> Explain?
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> -Rev. Smith
From post http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=18491
Where the first tweaking began...
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> God Bless, (yes I believe in God, his son Jesus who died for my sins,
> and the holy spirit.)
May Maury the Talking Kangaroo watch over you in the night!
-Rev. Smith
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In this discussion you have used the spaceship/kangaroo scenario as an
*example* as to how ludicrous you believe Christianity to be--to basically
reinforce your point, and you used this scenario as a debate tool. Where
the line was crossed, is when the facetious/sarcastic example was directed
at a *person*, not the topic.
Since no one, including yourself, believes in this 'Maury the Talking
Kangaroo', you are basically 'tweaking the nose' of Christians and their
beliefs with the expression, "May Maury the Talking Kangaroo watch over you
in the night!"--you are moving away from the debate of the actual issue(s)
into the realm of 'pot-shots' at people on the other side of the debate.
Further, since the belief in God is in the realm of faith, for someone to
say, 'I believe in God' and you denounce *their* belief in a facetious way,
it doesn't facilitate good continuing debate.
Anyway, hope that's clear enuf.
As an aside, I used to write for a newsletter a while back, and I signed off
as "Dr. David Geoffrey Koudys"--the Dr. part came in for reasons that are
irrelevant to this discussion, but I have no post-secondary education
warranting the Dr. and some folks called me on it, saying that I was
'belittling the Dr. profession'. I may not have personally agreed with it,
but I saw their point and promptly dropped the 'Dr.' from my sign-off. I
was wondering, do you have the necessary qualifications to use the 'Rev.'?
Take care.
Dave K
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| (...) This was not intended as a harsh comment. It's just that when someone says "God bless" to me, and then specifies that the God who they are asking to bless me is the God of Christianity, it has as much meaning to me as my imploring Maury the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Although The Rev has already addressed a lot of this very capably (and with remarkably polite restraint!), I wanted to add a few thoughts here, since the debate has taken a bit of a turn... That's an interesting point, but if we remove the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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