Originally posted by dags Oh like the "wood floats and wood burns so we should throw the witch in the river and if she floats we'll burn her" test? 🙂
According to Monty Python it can be solved much more easily: since wood floats on water and ducks float on water then all you need to do is compare the weight of the suspected witch and the weight of a duck and if the suspect is heavier then she is a witch!
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Test for Christians: Kill them and if they go to heaven they are true Christians and if they go to Hell then they are fake. If they simply die and thats it then you are an athiest.
Originally posted by twhitehead According to Monty Python it can be solved much more easily: since wood floats on water and ducks float on water then all you need to do is compare the weight of the suspected witch and the weight of a duck and if the suspect is heavier then she is a witch!
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Test for Christians: Kill them and if they go to heaven they are true Christians and if they go to Hell then they are fake. If they simply die and thats it then you are an athiest.
Sounds like someone's been reading from the militant Muslim's playbook.
Originally posted by Conrau K It seems to me that most theists (especially christians) are capable of the most inept logic (consider the deluge of evolution debates). WHY? What would Jesus say?
Jesus would probably ask you to remove the log from your eye before pointing out the speck in your brother's.
Originally posted by twhitehead According to Monty Python it can be solved much more easily: since wood floats on water and ducks float on water then all you need to do is compare the weight of the suspected witch and the weight of a duck and if the suspect is heavier then she is a witch!
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Test for Christians: Kill them and if they go to heaven they are true Christians and if they go to Hell then they are fake. If they simply die and thats it then you are an athiest.
But you don't believe in hell.
Also you are suggesting that whatever you sincerely believe is true for you, I wonder how well this principle would work with, say, medicine.