(December 30, 2015 at 8:35 pm)wallym Wrote:(December 30, 2015 at 8:12 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Ugggggggg! You didn't insult me, your logic does. Learn the difference.
It isn't just Buddhism, I criticize ALL religions, and if you spent any time reading my posts here, I go after other atheists as well.
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This is an unfortunate misunderstanding, and I've wasted your time. I'm solely talking about a single line you posted, and am not talking about any of the content in the thread.
You said: No you are not fine with anyone calling it nonsense otherwise why make the attempt to "correct" me.
He was not correcting you because you called it nonsense. He was correcting you because you said something he thought was a mischaracterization.
As in my example:
The guy responding doesn't care that the other guy thinks Betty is ugly. He's just clarifying that he's not married to Betty.
It just struck me as funny, as you were complaining about how people treat your criticism of religion, and then that guy posted a super polite non-confrontational post, and you started your rebuttal with the bolded line above. Again, waste of our time. I'd undo it all if I could.
Ok, let me boil it down to one sentence.
ALL religions are nonsense. No it was not a "mischaracterization" Feel better?
Now that you understand my position, can you stop acting like a child being over protective of others?
All religions were started in an age of scientific ignorance. All religions make moral claims. All religions back in antiquity had no clue about our species scientific DNA common connection. So all groups of humans made guesses and those ideas got turned into religion, those religions split into sub sects. Those sub sects have different ideas as how to implement those moral claims, and while some are less dogmatic and superstitious others are more dogmatic and superstitious, BUT BOTH are under the same label.
"Mischaracterization" is just code for "My interpretation is the right way". That is a dodge. All religions pull that dodge when they don't want to face those within their same label of a different sect do different things.
Religion is nonsense, the idea that one group has special insight or better insight than another, when they all claim to be good while ignoring the divisions they cause.
No he is not "Married to Betty" but both are part of the same religion using the same label, and "Misscharacterization" is a dodge. Point being that religion does not unify even within the same religion.