Why be good?

[Thumpalumpacus]

When CD, Parkers and Steel took exception to my "atheists in foxholes" comment, they wanted to counter my comments with their own personal experiences (CD and Parkers) and the experiences of others (in Steel's case). When they put them into writing in an online forum, they had every expectation that what they wrote would be accepted and believed as true. 

Now, they may counter after the fact that they don't give a hoot whether I believe it or not...but that isn't consistent with their motivation at the time they first posted. At that point, it was their expectation that their anecdotal evidence would be demonstrate that I was in the wrong about "atheists in foxholes". IOW, it was their expectation that their personal eyewitness testimony would be sufficient to overcome my previous comments.

You're absolutely wrong. Why do you think I have that stuff online? I've had this "atheist in a foxhole" conversation several times before, and you're not the first theist to question what I've said about it -- hell, you're not even the first theist here at this forum; you can ask Drich about that. So I didn't expect at all to be accepted at face value, and that is exactly why I have this sort of stuff loaded onto my Tinypic. If you go and look at the upload dates, you'll see they long predate this questioning.

What that means for you is that your point about "there are no atheists in foxholes" is unoriginal, and your point about me expecting to be accepted at face-value is factually incorrect. And the idea that you lured anyone into a trap is laughable, given that your trap lacked the jaw of verifiability ... which is exactly why I was happy to show you some of my bona fides. I expect to have to show evidence for my claims, and I am more than happy to do it without shilly-shallying around.

I do, of course, appreciate you giving me this opportunity to once more demonstrate how your wishful thinking has obviously corrupted your thinking process.