Forbidden Island

[Syne]

You sure do like to make up fanciful straw men. As if anything even remotely approaching that exchange has ever occurred, completely ignoring a very long history of successful missionaries.

A similar conversation did take place. I mentioned it earlier.

But you're right. The mission was very successful.  

For the umpteenth time, if you can't give me a time code, I'm not going to wade through a whole video hoping to find something resembling whatever point you think you're making. As an atheist, I'd take anything that guy says with a grain of salt, and only anecdotal at that.

It's a celebration of birth, not conception.  

Well, you got the point. Besides, it’s one of the central tenets, too, right?  Is the virgin birth a deal-breaker? I mean, it was God, for goodness sake. A supernatural deity should be able to enter into a world that he created in any manner that he wants, right?

No, I wouldn't say belief in the virgin birth is critical for salvation. I've never heard a salvation prayer that included it.

It's sad that you have to make up excuses to enjoy something. Especially when it already has significance....even if just the secular joy of the season of giving.

It's sad that you have to have a season to be nice. I'm nice all the time.  

It's not about simply being nice, but I can see how a bankruptcy of significance might reduce it to that.