naomi - // Nothing to ponder from my point of view. Since Theland claims it's his ‘job’ to tell people they are going to hell, he will be challenged - and if that challenge deters one single person from even considering taking his hateful, evil philosophy seriously it will have been time well spent. //
I understand your motivation, but I still question the validity of exercising it on threads like this.
You - and I before I gave up - have engaged Theland and similar fervents for years now, and the end result has been entirely the same every time - nothing has changed.
They remain utterly convinced of the rightness of their view, you and others remain utterly convinced of the equal and opposite wrongness of that view.
The same people post the same points, the vast majority simply ignore it all, and nothing changes, at all, ever.
That is why I have given up exchanging with Theland, there is simply no point.
He and his cohorts are utterly uninterested in anything approaching a sensible debate, and they remain unable to provide a scintilla of evidence for their beliefs, while simultaneously rejecting the endless evidence to the contrary provided to them.
And round it goes, day in and day out.
Your point that maybe one person may be saved from believing the nonsense these people cough up day in and day out is obviously worthy, but do you seriously believe that anyone apart from the usual contenders aactually reads these merry-go-rounds?
I very much doubt it.