Saturday: zero for two. Today: Two for two, and my affect is much improved thereby.
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Contended with a fundamentalist today. It was interesting to note where my grasp of apologetics is not as strong as it could be. We agreed on Christ, but I disputed with him on the doctrines of Mary, apostolic succession, and purgatory, as well as his grasp of the history of the early Church. (Note to self: read up on purgatory.) Luckily, he left his New Testament in his car and his powers of biblical quotation was weak. He claimed to be a former Catholic (hence, I suppose, the inability to quote chapter and verse ;.), losing his mind former faith to the fundies in college (Columbia, for crying out loud! Don’t they teach critical thinking there?), and renouncing the Church two years thereafter. He claimed that he went to two priests to ask them how to be saved, and was told that it was through the sacraments, not Christ. Incredulous, I was not sure whether he was lying or had visited some poorly trained seminarians. I told him to meet another priest, then joined someone else in my former web apps class to escape. Throughout I firmly reminded him that while I respected his love of Christ, I disagreed with his conclusions.
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DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.

—New York Times, November 26, 1991

[by way of inluminent]
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