Shimrod...Pete is not crazy... he is not stupid... as to "willfully ignorant", that depends...he is committed to a set of beliefs that most of us find to be at great odds with reason & science, but he does not hold them "in order to BE ignorant"...he is only one of many who take a literal view of one version of one religious text... and he does a pretty good job of listing the claims & arguments necessary to defend his set of views. He is emotionally committed to that interpretation, and all *I* do is present the countering views?

You want serious examples of warped logic in defense of religious thought? The following were posted here at Mudcat a couple years ago by a former member who has since moved on.....even Pete didn't try to emulate this degree of narrow thinking..

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"I've told you before, the Bible is the ultimate authority. If I didn't appeal to it to prove itself, then it wouldn't be. Thus, it is not circular reasoning"

"What evidence would be required for me to abandon my belief that God created the earth as He says He did? Prove to me that God doesn't exist and I'll recant everything I've said. It's an impossible task. You can't disapprove the very Being who created you! "

"Righteousness is defined by God, because God is the definition of goodness and righteousness. Therefore, stoning adulterers, homosexuals, et cetera, is not unrighteous because the righteous God has commanded it."