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Originally Posted by willravel
You can't run out into traffic and say, "In the name of God I stop you, Buick!" and have a car stop.
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But if it does stop, you give the credit to God, not the good folks at Midas. Then again, that's because you're a raving lunatic.
My earlier point about some people having the ability to believe in something to this extent has been pretty well trod upon now, but I will restate that I do in some way envy people that are so certain in their conviction in their world view that they'll take their lives into their own hands. It's not limited to the religious, although they're the most likely suspects. For example, anyone who "went over the top" during WWI earns my same respect and envy.
Personally, I admire the Pentacostals that I mentioned before that handle snakes every Sunday as a part of church services. I would never do it myself, I don't share many beliefs with those folks and I really don't care for most of the Pentacostals that I've met, but I do find it fasicnatiting that they do it.