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Thread #100409   Message #2022887
Posted By: M.Ted
12-Apr-07 - 01:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: One compelling reason for a god?
Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for a god?
Mrzzy: A Strawman argument--means, basically, that you are arguing against a "straw man"--an opponent that you have actually created yourself.

I think that you overestimate your skills in logic, which is the vehicle of reason--you are overconfident in your own rationality--and, as someone once said, pride goeth before the fall--but I like you, so here is some thing amazing for you to think about--

Up the road from you, only an hour and a half or so, in Emmitsburg, Maryland, every Thurdsay Night at St. Joseph's Parish, not merely an angel, but the Virgin Mary appears to a woman by the name of Gianna Talone Sullivan--and has since 1993--Here is a report, written by a Priest who is both a Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of the Law.Report on Marian Apparitions at EmmitsburgHe believes the apparitions are real. Can you refute him?