The ones that disappear

Rats! Normally gets picked up by PWA but everyone makes mistakes and grammar checkers ain’t perfect. Anyway, thanks for the heads-up :slight_smile:

Everyone makes mistakes. I have known some who kept posting on a range of topics for some time, but often it ends in enmity anyway. I can sympathise to a certain extent, as it can’t be easy to see the irreverent way most of us treat their cherished religious beliefs. I’ve known only one who came back and said that after the exchanges here he’d had a crisis of faith, and abandoned his beliefs, he was a Muslim, but his username escapes at this minute. I liad into him pretty hard tbh, and felt a little guilty, until he came back and said it had caused him to rethink his beliefs of course.[/quote]

Yeah, I had one success … a young scientologist. Long time ago. My view is that we don’t (or shouldn’t) do it to persuade them, we do it (or should) for the lurkers.

That’s why places like Talk Origins was so useful because theists only ever had some twenty or so questions (the so called FABNAQs: “Frequently Asked But Never Answered Questions” that we actually “frequently asked and repeatedly answered questions”) and every other question was some variation on one of those. I always meant to write a book on them but I’m lazy so I never got round to it :slight_smile:

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