Crackpot wrote:Meade doesn't translate he just points out the errors.
Should be some form of punctuation there, between 'translate' and 'he'....
But I'll translate - Gob is asserting that he jumped to a false conclusion from a shaky premise and it is now necessary to bluster a bit. The relevance of their religious beliefs is that it enabled the entire process.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
MajGenl.Meade wrote:
But I'll translate - Gob is asserting that he jumped to a false conclusion from a shaky premise and it is now necessary to bluster a bit. The relevance of their religious beliefs is that it enabled the entire process.
I think not. One of the options I gave, (all of which relate very well to such "parents kidnap their sick child" scenarios,) is that they may be Jehoobeees Wobblers, I was proved right.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
The relevance is the raised level of concern that their religions view on medical procedures, and their removal against advice of the kid.
I'll take a stab at it:
Sue's right, their religion wasn't relevant; all they wanted to do was get a different treatment for their seriously ill child which anyone might do. They weren't trying to prevent him from getting treatment because of their religion. But since they happen to be Jehovah's Witnesses, that provides me with an opportunity to do some religion bashing, an opportunity I never pass up.
