Special Rules of Play

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Imagine two people playing chess, normal chess with normal pieces and normal rules. However, one person has a special small flag. Every time he wants to, he could raise this flag and the rule stops applying to his pieces. That means when the flag is up, he could move his pieces in any way he wants.

Discussing religious matters with a Christian is often like playing chess with a person having this special flag. Every time he is cornered, he raises his flag called “faith”. All the rules are expected to stop applying to him. He doesn’t see the need to prove anything or to have evidence to support what he is arguing for. Whatever he says are to be considered as true, correct and absolute. 

He would vehemently complain if the other player deviated in any way from the rules that he himself does not observe.

Then he announces that his way of playing chess is "true", "just" and "moral".

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