Does it also use the possessive form apostrophe to depict the plural? Oh, and from the '80s, you say? A bit late in the game, I would think, since the pet rock fad began and ended in the mid-'70s. But then, you're still hanging on to that Bronze Age fad, so there is something to be said for your consistency.
Read my post again. I don't doubt that you got your pet rock when you said you did. You're really not all that much into reading comprehension, are you? I suppose that explains your continued fascination with the whimsical imaginings of flat-earther Bronze Age herdsmen. And I have no doubt that you'll pass down your pet rock to your progeny when you feel they are mature enough and ready to take care of it.
Your rants call to mind Romans 1:22: "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." The claim that atheism is the inevitable destination for those who think is not only absurd but easily disproveable. In fact, many prominnent intellectuals made the opposite journey, from atheism to a deep belief in God. C. S. Lewis for one.
masochists, that's what I think. The writers of the movie Constantine got this very well. I would show this, and ask them to explain the dynamic of good and evil as rooted in the bible. You should have heard some of the answers. At the end, it is a purely emotional response. In other words, that's they way the feel, the end. No logic required, or accepted. One reason why women fill the pews by a ratio of > 2-1
This usually comes as death become a reality to them. It is uncomfortable to think that after you die there is absolutely nothing else.
Religion is fun... It's all about the stories...! It is entertaining as well as comforting... that's why atheism doesn't have a chance... Picture an archeologists pointing to some rocks with nothing on them from 5000 years ago... "See... They were atheists!"...
"Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be â or so it feels â welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside." CS Lewis "A grief observed".