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Jun. 12th, 2010 09:30 pmConversation on the latest Slacktivist post:
Me: Paul and Jesus might have been wrong [about whether Adam and Abel were historical figures], but they weren't lying.
B: If they were wrong, they still aren't reliable as a source of truth, which makes everything they say about the way of salvation, the kingdom of heaven, etc. untrustworthy.
Me: The US plays Spain in the World Cup tomorrow. The forty-second episode of Supernatural had a lot of callbacks to the pilot episode. I'm probably wrong on the World Cup thing. (I don't even know if Spain is in the World Cup.) Does that have any bearing on whether I'm a reliable source of truth on the Supernatural thing?
L: Of course it does, because - as any football fan would know - Spain are European Champions and qualified for the World Cup at a canter. Furthermore, the USA played the only team with a comparable qualifying record to Spain - England - and drew one all. The USA fielded a player called Edson Buddle, named after another famous Edson: Pelé. Pelé is perhaps the greatest footballer ever known and, therefore, arguably a god (unless you come from the English Midlands, in which case God's name is Brian Howard Clough). If you can't be trusted to know that a man anointed in a god's image is playing for your own team, how can we trust your understanding of a television programme which will probably shortly be killing that selfsame god for the third time this series?
Me: Paul and Jesus might have been wrong [about whether Adam and Abel were historical figures], but they weren't lying.
B: If they were wrong, they still aren't reliable as a source of truth, which makes everything they say about the way of salvation, the kingdom of heaven, etc. untrustworthy.
Me: The US plays Spain in the World Cup tomorrow. The forty-second episode of Supernatural had a lot of callbacks to the pilot episode. I'm probably wrong on the World Cup thing. (I don't even know if Spain is in the World Cup.) Does that have any bearing on whether I'm a reliable source of truth on the Supernatural thing?
L: Of course it does, because - as any football fan would know - Spain are European Champions and qualified for the World Cup at a canter. Furthermore, the USA played the only team with a comparable qualifying record to Spain - England - and drew one all. The USA fielded a player called Edson Buddle, named after another famous Edson: Pelé. Pelé is perhaps the greatest footballer ever known and, therefore, arguably a god (unless you come from the English Midlands, in which case God's name is Brian Howard Clough). If you can't be trusted to know that a man anointed in a god's image is playing for your own team, how can we trust your understanding of a television programme which will probably shortly be killing that selfsame god for the third time this series?