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Good point on Isaac Newton. I think he spent much of his time attempting to discover a method of turning base metals into gold, for example. I also agree that if a “believer” comes up with something which turns out to be true i.e. that there is water on the moon then that is still true – if that is indeed so.

I recall reading H.L. Mencken’s reports of the Tenessee Monkey or Trial when one of the prime witnesses said that someone who read the bible knew more science than all the scientists in the USA. When you have that kind of closed mind you are asking for trouble and as I recall this man got it. I think much of this half baked biblical stuff is down to intellectual sloth. Belief what some half wit pastor tells you and you don’t have to trouble with slogging through years of hard work to acquire a degree. Nor does the pastor.

Isaac Newton had some famously dodgy beliefs, that did not make his gravitational theories any less valid for the time; if a Christian comes up with a new scientific theory it will be judged on it’s merit and not on his or her world view… 2+2=4, it would not be any less true no matter who said it

On the topic, since the nasty little man has no chance of being judged either way after he shuffles off this mortal coil, I hope that he lives a long and unpleasant life – the idea that one can commit a crime, blame it on the devil, then claim gods forgiveness & that that should trump human justice is simply ludicrous.

“How do you know?” I asked and I realised later that the question could have been far better formed.

“Our pastor preached a sermon on that very fact and he quoted from the books he had read.” And that was it. The pastor was the fount of all knowledge.

This of course proved a furious backlash from unbelievers and the guy got totally flamed on various internet forums. The thing that I noticed at the time was that wherever the matter was discussed, Christians derailed the thread. I am not even sure that this was even concious or deliberate, it was probably because they had no case at all if they stayed on topic and so had to change the subject.

Broga, these people often get away with their crimes because as a rule their followers are phenominally stupid.

Yet time and again, particularly in the USA, preachers live like millionaires, are caught with their pants down and their secretary over a desk, are caught stealing money donated from their followers and they get away with it. “I repent, I was led astray by the devil, I ask you to accept that I am now cleansed in the blood of the lamb” and they are back in business.

I suggest you all check it out if you want to be thoroughly entertained and depressed in equal measures.

“Maybe the real God, not the God you made up, will have mercy on your soul.”

Where did they think their god was while they were being abused?

“No sorry, can’t intervene to save you. That would mean violating your free will, and we can’t have that now, can we?”

BTW ‘Alamo’ means ‘Poplar’ in Spanish. Let’s hope the vile pastor is really ‘poplar’ with the homeys on the inside.

I’ll get me coat.