And while there is no shortage of prophetic charlatans today,
it is interesting to note how those who interpret world events
through a biblical lens have proven to be more reliable than
political scientists.

In a message sent 'round the world, Jason Spaceman poured fuel on the
fire with the following:

From the article:
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Posted: November 21, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Let me begin by assuring the reader that I am no genius, except by
some outmoded and ill-chosen intelligence classifications.

...

And yet, I am perhaps reasonably well-suited to answer the question
that has been asked many times of every intelligent and educated
Christian by incredulous atheists.

For someone so intelligent this fellow certainly has a love of
fallacies. But he is an "educated Christian", which explains it.


...

It is not so easy, however, to dismiss the beliefs and thought
processes of those one otherwise considers one's intellectual peers.

Argument from Authority.


...

Science is a *****. Her very
essence precludes certainty, which is both a genuine strength and a
grave weakness.

...

It is a weakness because the inherent mutability
of science is at odds with the human desire for objective guidelines
by which to live.

...

And while there is no shortage of prophetic charlatans today,
it is interesting to note how those who interpret world events
through a biblical lens have proven to be more reliable than
political scientists.

Double Standard.

Who has not heard the Catholic Spanish Inquisition,
(2,000 death sentences passed on to the Spanish Crown over
349 years) conflated with the pagan Holocaust (12 million
murders in five years), and the atheist slaughters of the
Great Terror, the Great Leap Forward and the Killing Fields.
(4 million murders in 20 years, 30 million murders in 3 years
and 2 million murders in four years, respectively.)

Argument from Body Count.

As Jesus Christ declared it would, the world has hated those
who followed Him from the moment it became aware of them - from
Nero to Kim Jong Il's North Korea.

"Christians are persecuted, so they must be right".

Read it at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47503

Regards,

Josef




I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human
race.

-- Alfred North Whitehead

Jason Spaceman wrote:

From Galileo and Newton to Doestoevsky and Tolkien,
men of outstanding intellect and achievement have placed their trust
in the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. However, it is all too
easy to dismiss many of these men as having lived in the
pre-Enlightened era and it can always be argued, however
disingenuously, that if those now dead had only been privy to the
latest developments in modern science, they, too, would have turned
their backs on the faith of their fathers.

I have made that same claim on my own a number of times, yet nobody has
offered any good evidence to the contrary, and this author is just
glossing right over the issue while taking a potshot at people like me
by claiming we're disingenuous. Well guess what sir, I'm very genuous
on this issue.

Jason Spaceman wrote:

From the article:
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Posted: November 21, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Written by one "Vox Day" (Were his parents having a laugh? "What a
lovely baby boy, I think we should name him after the Latin word for
'voice'")

Bio:

Vox Day is a novelist and Christian libertarian. He is a member of the
SFWA, Mensa and the Southern Baptist church, and has been down with
Madden since 1992. Visit his Web log, Vox Popoli, for daily commentary
and responses to reader email.


One notices a distinct lack of science education. And I don't know
about anyone else, but to me anyone mentioning a membership of "Mensa"
suggests either outright arrogance or a "despite my crappy job and/or
nerdy demeanour, I am really quite clever" type of person.