14 Jun '07 12:58>
Originally posted by lucifershammerForgive the recourse to inductive reasoning here, but I think this forum furnishes ample evidence to suggest that the prevailing tendency among Christians is not in fact to withdraw their statements about God when such statements are shown to be problematic.
I don't know why "so many" Christians jump through hoops. Maybe they don't really jump through hoops -- maybe they just posit hypotheses. If these hypotheses are shown to have some apparent problems they do what any rational person would do and withdraw it to see whether it can be improved or should be ditched altogether.
It's much more common to see people try to do a few logical backflips, or to resort to an ad hominem attack, or both.
People get mad when you try to make them think differently about something they love: that is, to think about that something in a way that they suspect will be unpleasant.
Of course, the same principle obtains on the agnostic side of the aisle.