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I've encountered this mindless "Christian-think" before. The answer was summed up nicely by William Jennings Bryan when he was on the stand at the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial in 1925. Clarence Darrow, Scopes' attorney for the defense (and well known atheist), had just asked him a question about how could Joshua make the sun stand still in the sky in the battle before Jericho, when earth revolves on its axis. He finishes the point by asking Bryan "Have you ever thought about the consequences of the earth being stopped in mid rotation?" Obviously flustered by the incongruity of the concept, Bryan replied "I never think about things that I don't think about." to which Darrow replied: "Do you ever think about things that you DO think about?" IOW, this is the Christian way. They are told that this stuff is truth and they are encouraged to accept it at face value without EVER thinking about it. Those with the genetic predisposition to NEED religion gleefully comply. They answer real questions with quotes from scripture, rather than with real arguments because religion REQUIRES non-thinking acceptance of church dogma. MacDaniel has been taught that God has given us free will. It has never occurred to him to question the obvious logical dilemma that if God gives humans "Free Will" then it must come without strings, or its not Free Will. Free Will as a concept is a lot like being pregnant, either a woman IS pregnant or she ISN'T pregnant. there is no such thing as "sort of" pregnant as there is no such thing as Free Will with strings attached. People like MacDaniel simply cannot see that the proposition of a god giving each human the Free Will to accept or deny him, BUT if we deny him, we get eternal damnation, is exactly the same kind of Free Will that society gives each member with regard to liquidate. You have the Free Will to liquidate me. If you wish to liquidate me, you can, and there is likely nothing that I can do to dissuade you. BUT once having exercised that Free Will, you must pay the consequences and society will extract from you punishment for taking my life. I.E. you can kill me or not, as you choose. But if you do, you will, of course, pay the consequences of your actions. The more sane among us can be seen that these are both the same dilemma, but to people like MacDaniel, he "never thinks about things that he doesn't think about."

See? He has no concept of just how contradictory that "argument" is.

-- George Graves The health of our society is a direct result of the men and women we choose to admire.