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To: PROLIFE who wrote (12649)	3/28/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Look, you can put up ten thousand thought experiments, concoctions of man, and say take the test. Isn't a bit arrogant to dismiss the billions of inhabitants of this planet who are equally convinced that theirs is the way to the truth? I don't subscribe to these fairy tale explanations because a) they are manifestly absurd, b) they are an insult to that which did create this universe, and c) they have done enough damage and enough to hold back the search for the truth already. I can tell you with the utmost sincerity that your little stories are about as credible as a fairy dancing on the head of a pin. With equal sincerity, I feel sorry for those trapped in that fantasy world and hope that someday, before insanity really does set in, you find your way to peace and clarity.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12649)	3/28/1998 9:35:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

we are MUCH MUCH more intelligent than those men of old. It's not a question of intelligence and there were thousands of clear thinking men long before that crowd came along and discovered the pen and pad.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12649)	3/28/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

I took that test with utmost sincerity as a young man. That's when the clarity I now enjoy really started to blossom and the shackles of a false God and the fictional infrastructure which supports it came crashing down. I never met a religious person who could argue their way out of a paper bag on the issue. My favorite is Billy Graham who relates the story of a non-believing student who started hurling bad language at Billy just before Billy was leaving to catch a plane. The troubled young man asked Billy why he should believe in his God and the answer came to Billy. This was on national television, this is Billy Grahams strongest case for Christianity and he loves to tell this story: Billy: "If I told you there was a 50% chance the plane I was going to get on was going to crash would you get on it?" Kid: "Why, no!" Billy: "What about a 10% chance?" Kid: "No way!" Billy: "Well, if there is even a 1% chance that I am wrong about Jesus being the savior of man why would you forfit the chance for eternal life and risk eternal suffering?" Kid: Duh... dat sounds logical, doh! What if David Koresh asked you that question? What if Jim Jones or Jim Baker asked you that question? What if Charles Manson asked you that question? What if a Satan worshiper asked you that question? What if I collected 99 more plausible religious arguments. There would be a 1% chance that each of those would be true, too, using Billy's, ah, logic. That's when I realized that Billy Graham was about as bright as a burned out lightbulb. Then again, there are no practical arguments, only absurdities.