Fan Mail!

I have been receiving a fair amount of fan e-mail lately.  While I would like to post them all, that would just be vain.  So I picked this one to post and reply to.  I censored only the email address of the sender.  And for future reference if you send  email and I decide to post it, I will assume you want me to block out your e-mail address unless you specifically ask me to leave it in.  All e-mail can be sent to TinySaint777@yahoo.com.

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Dear Servant of Christ (if that really is your name J):   

Your concern for me is well received.  However,  I would like to voice my own concerns, assuming you have no objection…....  I will take your silence as permission to proceed.  Thank you!

Okay then.  You have committed the following two faith fallacies: 

1.)    An appeal to evidence.  I need not remind you that faith takes the place of evidence as it is the evidence of things not seen.  

2.)    An appeal to knowledge.   As you know, 1^st Corinthians 8:2 says,  “And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”  The verse stands on its own, but when read in context it is plainly clear that man cannot know things that are of God.  Whiles this clearly contradicts your point, it does not contradict what your verse is actually saying, as we can only "know" god through belief or faith, but not through actual knowledge. 

Finally, you refer me back to the bible.  This is a good move as our faith is based on the book.  While a Muslim may use the same argument, all we have to do is point out that the Muslim’s holy book rejects our book and we win by default of faith.

I know that this may be a bit hard for some to swallow, but if it made sense then we could justify faith through logic, and remember, an appeal to logic is the third faith fallacy.  What the bible says may not make sense to the human mind, but if you must break my heart and turn away from Christianity in favor of something that does make sense, may I suggest Buddhism?

          Most Sincerely,

          TinySaint

Unrelated deep thought:

Exodus 21:20-21 (New International Version)

"If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property."

Does Science Threaten Christianity?

The answer, of course, is no!  But nevertheless, the online debate rages on.  Scientific questions of the most concern to Christians are:

1.)    Evolution to counter creationism

2.)    The real age of the earth

3.)    The rejection of ID by the scientific community

4.)    The very existence of God

5.)    Whether the moon landings were a hoax

One is hard pressed these days to join just about any internet forum and not see one of these topics come up at some point.  The debate is everywhere.  Just the other day I was reading through a cooking light forum and found an intense thread debating the age of the earth and what that meant for evolution.

Fear not.  You can overcome any science based debate with one sentence:

"However, when the interpretation of scientific data contradicts the true history of the world as revealed in the Bible, then it’s the interpretation of the data that is at fault."

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/docs/tree_ring.asp

You see, with that statement science not only ceases to threaten our religious views, but it also ceases to be relevant.   Memorize it word for word if you do not already know it by heart.

Unrelated Deep Thought:

Deuteronomy 23:2

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

How to respond to an Atheist

Much of my focus so far has been to arm fellow Christian Soldiers with the tools necessary to disarm the faith of false religions.  But sometimes we find ourselves confronted with an even more serious threat:  the Atheist.   Oh that god may deliver us from such a predicament.  

The atheist can be the most formidable foe you meet.  While it is rather easy to demonstrate that the faiths of all non-Christian religions are silly, we find ourselves in a different ball game when battling the atheist.  They will fight dirty.  They will use all the techniques I have given you to fight faith, but they will also use them against our beloved Christianity.  While this merely highlights a misunderstanding of how to apply arguments against faith, atheists will do it anyway.  

But it gets worse.  They will also employ several of the faith fallacies appealing to evidence, logic and knowledge  (discussed in an entry below called: Faith Fallaices).  While a believer using such arguments is hypocritical because the arguments reject faith, the atheist is not concerned in the slightest about his soul and will reject faith at every turn.

Thus, we need to address the atheist with a completely different perspective.  There are many techniques in dealing with an atheist, but for now I will give you only the most effective.  When you have had time to practice and master it, I will give you more.  Here we go:

Be the alpha

Not only should you avoid arguing on their turf, but avoid arguing with them altogether!  Should you encounter an atheist out on the street, you must have the attitude that his opinions are unimportant, that he is far below the level of the believer, and not worth the time of day.   Here is how you can put this into practice (from a real conversation/session):

Atheist:  That you posit god as the first cause is a cop out.  You say it is unlikely that humans in all their complexity would ever come into existence naturally, yet you advance a much more complex being as the first cause. What ever the odds against humans, they are almost infinitely worse for the existence of this other highly complex being…

TinySaint:  Bad dog!  Sit.

Atheist:  Excuse me, did you just call me a dog?

TinySaint:  Bad, bad dog!  That is no!  Sit.

Atheist:  What the fuck?

TinySaint: No!  Sit.

Atheist:  Are you on drugs?

TinySaint:  Bad!  I said sit!

Atheist:  Uh, okay.  Atheist sits.

TinySaint:  Good dog.  Throws him a doggy biscuit.

Did you see how effective this is?  Like a dog, the atheist will not usually respond positively to the command the first time it is given.  The key is consistency.  When they ignore your command, do not reward them, but repeat the command.  Keep this up until they either obey or walk away.  I also suggest keeping a rolled up newspaper in your back pocket as it can make the training process go by faster.  If the atheist refuses to obey after the first two commands, take out the paper and whack him on the nose and then repeat the command.  You must show him that you are the alpha and that he cannot get away with his atheistic animalism.

One word of caution.  The reward at the end is optional.  I typically like to reward good behavior, but after I give them the doggy biscuit they usually follow me home, and hang around outside begging for more.  This can certainly be annoying.

Now, go practice and update me with your results!  God be with you.

Unrelated deep thought

Deuteronomy 23:13:

And make sure that you have a small shovel in your equipment. When you go out to the toilet area, use the shovel to dig a hole. Then, after you relieve yourself, bury the waste in the hole.

Winning is believing

Tonight I want to demonstrate how you can win an argument against false religions merely by believing you have won.  What you say?  It is not as ridiculous as it sounds.  If having faith the size of the grain of a mustard seed enables you to move mountains, then the amount of faith required to do something as simple as win an argument must be closer to the size of an atom, or maybe even a top quark.

Put ‘Winning is believing’ into practice

Our friends at carm.org effectively demonstrate this technique by disemboweling the faith of the Jehovah's Witness.

Addressing the Jehovah’s Witness they say:

… you are taught the Watchtower organization is the true channel of God’s revelation to His church on earth.  You are taught that you are in "The Truth." But believing it does not make it so.

www.carm.org/jw/ifurjw.htm

How right they are.  Believing does not make a thing so, unless you believe as we do.  But this is only the beginning of the argument.

The Watchtower organization tells you what to think and what to do.  If you say that is not true and that the Watchtower Organization is God's organization on earth, then you are simply repeating what the Watchtower tells you.

www.carm.org/jw/ifurjw.htm

Slam!  They cannot escape from this.  Any response the Jehovah’s witness tries to make would prove that he rejects what the Christian organization tells him to think and to do.  Further, it will also show his unwillingness to simply repeat what the bible tells him.  Are you starting to believe we have won yet?  Let us go a step futher:

Jehovah’s Witnesses faithfully go door-to-door preaching the "Kingdom of God" that is taught them via the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

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they are students of the Watchtower which is why, basically, all Jehovah's Witnesses all believe the very same thing.

www.carm.org/jw/ifurjw.htm

Not only do they interrupt us at very inconvenient times, (usually right in the middle of sex with our spouses in the missionary position), but they are also united in their belief.  Sheer arrogance.   The annoyance factor alone is enough for us to believe we have won.

With so few words, we have already demonstrated that the Jehovah faith is a fraud and a cult because it fails to submit to our belief.  But why quit when we are ahead?  Why not throw another foot of dirt on the grave of their faith?

Do you want to trust your eternal soul to the teachings of several men headquartered in Brooklyn, New York who claim to be the directors of God's organization on earth?  Do you?  Eternity is a long time to be wrong.  

www.carm.org/jw/ifurjw.htm

Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying the Jehovah?  I hear it.  And it is the sound of victory.  Why would the Jehovah trust the institution of his faith to those men in Brooklyn, when he could trust it to The First Council of Nicea called by Emperor Constantine 300 years after the death of Christ as we do?  Note, that Constatine has some pretty hefty credentials, as the word “Emperor” appears before his name.

And with that, my friends, we have buried their faith with ours.

Unrelated deep thought: 

Deuteronomy 14:21:  …if you happen to find a dead animal, don't eat its meat. You may give it to foreigners who live in your town or sell it to foreigners who are visiting your town.