"while all the while spewing atheistic rhetoric "
vegascowboy
Sorry, vegas, your hate filled gibberish will not work. Town heretic and I now understand each other.
You just don't get it, do you? I do not
hate you at all. If you have gathered that from my posts, then I apologize, but it is
you who are mistaken and ill-informed. On the contrary,
I see in you the potential for a valuable discussion and worthwhile dialogue.
My point about your "Faith" thread was not the content, it was the presentation. The underlying nature of your inquiry is a noteworthy one, but when you disguise it in an oversimplified story of thugs breaking into a home and harming children there, it is simply a tired and well-worn attempt at prying deeply held and very sacred feelings from believers. In other words,
I think it is beneath your intellectual capacity. Get it? I was trying to provide a compliment to the potential of your ability.
You ask good questions, but please do not demean us by treating us as unthinking children.
I guess seeing that our disagreement had ended was intolerable for you.
I see that you and TH have come to an understanding. I fear that I missed that before, and for that, I am sorry.
In the quote at the top of this post I imagine you are referring to the post called "faith". I guess asking why bad things happen to good people is evidence that I am an evil atheist.
You continue to say that I have called you an "evil atheist." Please provide specific posts where I have said those words. My comment was that your words seem to be the musings of a thinly veiled atheist pretending to be a caring and curious agnostic. I never called you evil. I never said you were an atheist.
Even if I am an atheist, I believe that atheists are allowed to post here.
Certainly, and I mentioned that very thing.
Anyway, I have learned to ignore you.
I'm sorry to hear it.
Tho I do have one last question for you, when not pretending ( thru archaic slang, no modern cowboy talks like that) to be a cowboy...
Archaic slang? I am sorry that you choose not to like my way of speaking. I can only be myself, speak in my own way, and reflect my own experiences. And I never said that I was a cowboy, modern or otherwise. I like cowboys, and I respect and admire their way of life. I live in the West and have embraced a lot of their sentimentalities, but I never said I was one.
...why do you constantly only post name calling?
Again, where? I define name calling as using terms such as idiot, moron, stupid, ugly, etc. which some on TOL can and will use when talking to you. I am not one of them. Where have I used a name such as this to refer to you?
I guess you are really into stirring up trouble for no reason.
No, not for no reason.
I simply want you to dialogue at the level of which I think you are capable. For good or ill, I was trying to compliment the ability to carry on an intellectual conversation that I think is inherent in you.
Your Faith thread seemed to me, IMHO, to be a little like a surgeon pretending to only have the skills of a physician's assistant. You, of course, being the surgeon.
Anyway, rant away. You will get no response from me.
So be it.
PS; Actually, I do not find your implying that I am an atheist insulting ( sorry) only uninformed.
Well that's good then, but it wasn't meant as an insult...at least not in the way you are thinking.
You claim to want to drop the debate but you continue to argue - which is it? Drop it? Then just say, as others before you have done when faced with a piece of advice concerning the etiquette of the forum, "Oh. Okay, I didn't realize. Thanks for the heads-up." Or continue to argue that you've somehow been wronged, like this:
