Even most religious people must agree that the greatest gift God gave us is the ability to think, question and reason. That ability has been the source of all human development and sets us apart from all other (known) creatures.
So if a person knowingly puts aside this gift and gives in to blind faith (even if it be faith in God himself) then it is an insult to God. To truly honor God, you MUST question everything, use logical reasoning, and then reach your own conclusions.
Can’t resist the physics-related posts, so here is my take on this:
The transmogrifier gun is really a humungous energy-source. It has to be, to convert a little boy into a safe. To create that amount of matter (let’s say the difference in mass is 50kgs), the transmogifier gun will need an energy of (using the well known E=mc^2 formula) 4.5 * 10^18 Joules. This is approximately equivalent to 1,000 1MT nuclear bombs going off simultaneously.
On the other hand, when the transmogrifier is eventually used (presumably) to turn the safe back into Calvin, the aforementioned 1000 nuclear bombs-worth of energy will be released. In order to avoid vaporizing Calvin, and indeed the entire state, the transmogrifier must have the ability to absorb this tremendous amount of energy.
Hope that helps.
Even most religious people must agree that the greatest gift God gave us is the ability to think, question and reason. That ability has been the source of all human development and sets us apart from all other (known) creatures. So if a person knowingly puts aside this gift and gives in to blind faith (even if it be faith in God himself) then it is an insult to God. To truly honor God, you MUST question everything, use logical reasoning, and then reach your own conclusions.