[lifesaver]

I do appreciate God-Spam.

But for fun, I shall debate the 16 year old.

John Walker Lindh, you are in way over your head here. Older and wiser kids have debated with us on here and have left in tears. If you’re up for it, we are. But don’t come on hoping to win converts. GC isn’t a place that really tolerates evangelism.

GC Lessons for the Newbie:

#1 - The flagrant use of 'so-called' in any argument automatically lessons the intent and effect of such argument.

#2 - All of us are capable of finding random sources that no one has ever heard of to back up our points. I could probably cite a source that says there's 14 months in the year. For all we know that completely un-attributed and un-cited story written by your convert could have been written by you. Except for the bad grammar, so it could have been written by anyone but you.

#3 - Generally speaking, I don’t click on any link that has a country code other than .us, .ca, or .uk. I don’t know what the .za extension is, but I do know I don’t want the US Treasury department or Customs and Immigration at my door tomorrow morning for violating the Patriot Act.

#4 - Make sure your links actually work. The one from Amnesty International didn’t.

#5 - Tim McVeigh never claimed that he bombed the federal building in OKC to further a religious agenda. The 9/11 attackers did. His goal was an act against the government. Specifically to start a race war. He was a bigot, not a zealot.

#6 - Your first argument was incredibly weak. But due to your age, Its understandable to fall into the correlation implies causation argument. I'd encourage you to Google cum hoc ergo propter hoc for a better understanding of an incorrect categorical syllogism.