(February 14, 2016 at 12:56 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(February 13, 2016 at 2:23 pm)robvalue Wrote: Drich was pulling this schtick when I joined the forums, and it hasn't evolved since then. How long before I joined was he at this?
From the start, IIRC - or at least very early on. I figured he was a Poe at first, because he was so openly vile.
That's the whole point of Poe's Law: fundamentalists are driven so batty by their brain-virus (meme), as it short-circuits their normal thinking processes in order to defend itself against the intellectual "immune system" of skeptical thinking, that you can't tell if a person is trying to be openly vile or if they really don't realize that's how they sound to anyone outside their religious cult clique.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
