A Check of Paula Kord's Posting to Me

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>M.BELL

>Nice try Farrell. Truth is I don't have any reason to believe you, and 

>I

>suspect that those who read the recent events with first Adnan and now 

>P.K.

>will not believe you either. 

>


DTS
Gotta love how inerrantist tactics take familiar recurring forms:

1)  Convince themselves that they are not morally or intellectually
obligated to listen to a critic (usually because intellectual responses
to the critic are often nonexistent)

2)  Convince others that critics are inherently inferior, morally or
"spiritually", again undeserving of attention (another variant of the
I-cant-answer-but-even-still-i-dont-have-to-answer-because-critics-arent-human-anyway
routine)

3)  Convince themselves and others that they and their beliefs have
senority, special rights and privileges, or other reasons why they are
entitled to preferred treatment and need not use a level playing field
("this is a Christian nation" "the Bible has been around for almost 2000
years" "Christians are involved in charity work" ad nauseam)

4)  Use the "if God could have POSSIBLY done it as told in the Bible, HE
DID!" apologetic (e.g.  inventing absurdly contrived theories to make the
Noah's Ark myth just barely plausible enough to go on believing.)  It is
because of this rubbish that Till has to spend countless paragraphs
hermetically sealing each and every pore of inerrantist wiggling and
fudging room in advance.

5)  The best defense is a good offense.  (Demanding detailed citations
that only full time experts like Till can muster, then claiming "victory"
when the errantist finally runs out of details)

6)  The best defense is an extended time-out.   (Derailing the debate
into a pointless "Is so!" "Is not!" spat while loading each sentence up
with snide accusations.  Unfortunately the errantist is often drawn into
this diversion him/herself.)

7)  The best defense is a good dead end.  ("Study Hebrew and Greek!", as
if the Bible translators who have given us the KJV, NKJV, RSV, NRSV, TEV,
NIV, NASB etc did not understand Hebrew and Greek when preparing all
these Bibles)

What all these devices have in common is they keep the discussion well
away from what the inerrantists know is a doomed fantasy world:
inerrancy.


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