(January 10, 2016 at 12:17 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(January 10, 2016 at 12:10 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: So in your view, three out of three religionists are extremely courteous to atheists online?
No. All three can be douche bags potentially or they can be composed and courteous. Also people should not always take advice or criticism as rude or non-courteous. It depends on how it's done.
The thing is are we going anywhere? If Theists are deluded, they won't find out this way. If Atheists are missing something or should believe, they won't find out this way either.
So either dialogue is useless in this respect for majority of Theists and Atheist a like as far as this discussion goes (not on other issues like who is invited to my party which almost no one invited meand things unrelated to this discussion ), it's leading no where...
There has to be change of attitude if we are going to reach a conclusion. A more patient humble approach to the issue on both sides.
Isn't it interesting that you chose the most flattering depictions for your theists, and the most unflattering for your atheists?
That's pretty sneaky. Perhaps rather than depict all atheists as rude cretins and all theists as angelic victims of atheist aggression, a more realistic set of caricatures would get your point across better. Right now you seem to be assigning blame to those horrible rude atheists, and giving your beatific theist brethren a pass. I'm not interested in discussing unbalanced and therefore unrealistic portrayls; I just wanted to point out the bias in your original post; it renders that post useless, to my mind.
