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Tyrannical on 28 March 2009
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mmnin said:
Tyrannical said:
mmnin said:
Tyrannical said:

 

 It's just as boring as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

It's all part of a particularly useless and boring line of theological thought. If that doesn't disinterest you enogugh, you can read up on Thomas Aquinas as he spent a lot of time thinking about silly things.

 

haha.  I guess I meant interesting as in it is used frequently as the end all for people to discredit the Christian religion.

 

I've never heard of it being used at all as an end to discredit Christianity. Certainly not an argument I would expect an educated person to make, as this fell out of poplar usage several hundred years ago. I don't even think it was taken too seriously back then either.

Ah.  well there you go.  I'm in Tennessee.  I hear that argument quite a bit.  And even those who do not live around me who have used that argument, may not necessarily be of the highest educational background.  It is a popular one in at least some areas apparently.

 

I think they should stick to the simpler "Why does the righteous man also suffer?"

 



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
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