Comment by Jamie E. on November 13, 2009 at 11:13pm

Ha ok, first I wasn't going to comment on this, because in the preview it looked like you were just going to go on and on with this conversation. And then I read it. I think that a lot of believers have problems with wrapping their minds around the fact that, even if they do want to believe in a god, there has to be some leeway for scientific and natural exploration. For instance, god didn't just put plastic on the earth. He didn't just make glass. Glass is actually made from sand. I mean, if someone wants to believe that god just said, "hmm, this island would look a lot better surrounded in some ground up seashells", then that's cool. But they should also be prepared to believe that god put EVERYTHING here, which means they'd have to believe that god put recliners here, and god put agent orange here, and god put rape, murder, and incest here. All these things had to just come from god if someone is going to be so closed minded as to say that god just dropped an entire world's worth of sand here. I agree with you, though. Not even because of the sex. I couldn't stand to be around a person who didn't question something as obvious as how sand is made.

Comment by FluoCantus on November 14, 2009 at 3:20am

I should have brought up the plastic or glass thing. That would have been an instant tear down of her "argument" that hopefully would have made her open her eyes a little. But I was too dumbfounded to think at that point. Good reply. I didn't get your opening though.

Comment by Shine on November 14, 2009 at 12:02pm

Satan made sand to irritate people trying to have lunch at the beach. God never would have been such an asshole.

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