Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Unanswered prayers Message-ID: <816@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 14:11:15 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.816 Posted: Thu Nov 7 14:11:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:38:26 EST References: <934@cvl.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 25 In article <934@cvl.UUCP> harwood@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood) writes: > In article <395@pyuxn.UUCP> pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman) writes: > > Mike Andrews gives an example of God answering prayers. I would > > like to offer my own... [Counter example removed for terseness. MRH] > > This is how God answers prayers. > > On the contrary, all we know for sure is that you would > implicitly belittle the faith of your close friend, for the sake > of scoring your point -- I see. Pointing out examples of bad choices and consequences (be they drugs, rock and roll, gods, or whatever) is belittlement? How nobly non-judgemental you Xians must be to avoid this social gaffe! Surely it must be a mortal sin as well. :-( > This is how ~you~ have answered your friend. Perhaps if this was the only way Paul answered his friends, he might be disliked. However, YOU have no way of knowing this, and your insinuation is a typical ad-hominem attack. Try scoring your points with logic, rather than rhetoric. For example, explain your God's answer to Paul's friend's prayer. Address the argument, not the arguer. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh