Re: Reintroducing myself.

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:29:33 +0000, Helen Hall
<usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But other casual comments are not taken up in a similar manner. I don't
recall that anyone's done it, but take another imaginary comment.
Someone whose sick relative makes an unexpected and complete recovery
might say something like, "Of course the prayers of the local church
made all the difference."

Would this statement be taken up and savaged by the atheists in the
group? I think not, though many people might privately believe that the
prayers made no difference at all.

I wouldn't argue about it here, as long as that's all there was. If
the person went on to say how wonderful god was and how everybody
needed to know him, I'd argue.
--
Marilee J. Layman
http://mjlayman.livejournal.com
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