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calm down, maybe?
Just yelled at some Jehovah's Witnesses working the neighborhood. They came up to the door and I knew exactly what was going on, and I interrupted their spiel and asked them, "Can you surprise God?"
... they didn't understand what I was getting at, and eventually got on about how the earth is so perfect, that it definitely must have a loving creator to set up all this order. At which point I started yelling at them about people starving to death in Africa, and they got scared of me barking at them and left.
But Michael Corleone is right: "Never hate your enemies."
I shouldn't give them the pleasure of being berated. They probably get off on thinking that they've got this huge uphill spiritual battle, and relish feeling oppressed.
Also maybe I should be nicer to human beings :-(
... they didn't understand what I was getting at, and eventually got on about how the earth is so perfect, that it definitely must have a loving creator to set up all this order. At which point I started yelling at them about people starving to death in Africa, and they got scared of me barking at them and left.
But Michael Corleone is right: "Never hate your enemies."
I shouldn't give them the pleasure of being berated. They probably get off on thinking that they've got this huge uphill spiritual battle, and relish feeling oppressed.
Also maybe I should be nicer to human beings :-(
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But then, if they can't stand up to some scruffy atheist kid yelling at them about predestination and theodicy, how are they going to save anybody?
You like the "surprise" question? What are some possible tacks for answering it?