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Originally Posted by filtherton
Not that i care for evangelicalism, but why are idiocy and insanity prerequisites for religious conviction?
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I believe that, in this case, he was speaking specifically on the man's primary motivation to attempt to defy physics, not all religious people's motivations for being religious in general.
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Originally Posted by guthmund
What if Franck Kabele were just an ordinary guy who believed he could manipulate fire like Pyro from the X-Men universe? I wonder when he eventually burned himself to death, would we all still applaud his absolute belief?
I don't know. I just think that if this were someone else from any other walk of life who did this for some other silly reason, the responses would be littered with sly sarcasm and more than few Darwin comments (not that it won't happen anyway, but I think you know what I mean.)
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This is what I was driving towards, thank you. Because if your example was the case, this thread would have been about another "darwin award" winner. As it contains a religious aspect for motivation, we have mixed feelings in the replies. I find this awesome, and that was the intent here.