(January 10, 2016 at 12:25 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: 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.
Theist1 was suppose to me when I first came here. I use to say I believe for reasons that I can only justify to myself and can't prove God. I even had a thread once saying "all logic tells me God doesn't exist but my heart says otherwise".
Theist2 is me having a little courage to find arguments and believe in them and present them.
Theist3 is me coming to religion.
I said Theist but I really meant me. The theist/atheist dialogue phases I been through.
But you are right, if it was a general implication, then it's unfair...a lot Theists here come with not much to dialogue and are rude.
But in all honesty.......I want a sincere dialogue over this issue. And my impression, is over all been this.
