Sorry, everton, I don�t intend to hi-jack your site with this matter, but you and Octavius did raise it, so I think I�d better answer it.
You memory is at fault, Octavius. I didn�t give up R&S because I didn�t like the answers I got, but because I rarely got any! Time and again I debunked Theland�s mantra about nothing coming from nothing, ergo there must be a God. On every occasion he chose to ignore rather than answer and then repeated his illogic to every newcomer. I tried to start rational discussions such as asking what evidence people had for believing the Jesus story, and got nowhere. When I asked how a minor god of southern Israel, promoted to �God� only about 3000 years ago, had managed to create the universe 12,000 million years previously, and why he was then demoted, I got little response other than a feeble bleat about the universe not being that old anyway.
When you, Octavius, (or was it Clanad?) said you were bored with my repeatedly comparing the idea of God with those of Santa and the Tooth Fairy I promised that I would stop it if you could show why my comparison was invalid. There was no response. And so on�
What was obvious was that one cannot have a proper debate with religionists because they don�t deal in the necessary currency : fact, evidence, logic and reason.
But since R&S is a religious site, where people are entitled to be as irrational as they like, it seemed only right that I should stop being a nuisance and shove off. I was plainly at the wrong party.
When 123everton asked his unfriendly question here instead of on R&S (on the wrong side of Stanley Park, so to speak) I should have ignored it. Will I ever learn?