If someone promises that they will return before everyone in a room dies, then by god, if they don't return by the time everyone dies, I just have to assume they are not coming back.
It does interest me how fundamentalist who want to take everything literally have no problem with the elastic stretching of time that has taken place with the second coming but jump up and down insisting that God really created the world in seven days. That capacity to swallow contradiction without blinking still boggles my mind.
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