Your children regard you as thier parrent and rely on you for thier safety.
Yes, but my children know me and experience me on an empirical level. With God, it's all faith. So with faith, you reach for the best, surest, safest way of thinking you can come up with...the classic parent-child metaphor.
That was quite an artfull dodge. You seem to have completely ignored the point I made. i even gave multiple examples so you would understand the point better, but you have to ignore them to make your point, so I'll refer anyone else reading to refer to my original post rather that your selective quote.
Putting the "fun" back in Fundamentalist Christian Dogma.
" I know God exists because WBAM told me so. " - theory9
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