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To: Mr. Silverback

"For you, such a purchase would be a waste of money. I suggest instead that you read More Than A Carpenter by Josh McDowell. Though Carpenter is McDowell's most important book, I'd also suggest the book he wrote with Don Stewart, Answers to Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About the Christian Faith."

You assume I have not read those books. I read both of them years ago. They do not impress. I'm more interested in reading apologetics that are a bit more challenging. Josh writes for a naive audience. I stopped being a target for his arguments way back in the 1960s, although I still read such books when they appear.

I'm sure they're useful for some, but they're pretty simplistic.


35 posted on 08/01/2006 1:53:26 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: MineralMan

Your postings as a proud atheist are similar to those of other atheists: airily superior, condescending toward people of faith (Christians are nothing but ignorant superstitious peasants) and gimme gimme gimme in your demands for unimpeachable proof of G-d's existence.

Oh BTW, I'm just a small town Deep Southerner. But every small town in the South has its local oddball, its homegrown village atheist. Our own is precious; he rants against the ringing of Sunday churchbells as intruding on his personal space, wants churchground property taxed at the commercial rate, and wants In God We Trust removed from the currency. Just me, me, me. His letters to the editor are as much fun as his shouted replies to those who dare to disagree.

Anyway, let's hear more skepticism about `deities'. Flame away, ol' Robert P. Ingersoll.


86 posted on 08/01/2006 4:04:38 PM PDT by elcid1970
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