(June 2, 2016 at 4:28 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Thanks. I suspect he's got me on ignore because he doesn't like being exposed as an idiot. Sorry, CL, lately I've been losing patience because the so-called rational skeptics have been trying to avoid seeing their objections be decimated. I've debunked their "no evidence" card three times on separate threads by listing the clear and obvious evidence. Not one atheist has even attempted to respond.
It's probably better not to call people idiots. Sorry no one responded to your stuff... that's frustrating.
What I don't like is when a thread is started, making a claim about a Christian belief, and then when one of us chimes in to clear it up and explain what our views actually are, some people just start poking fun and being dismissive rather than trying to understand and form legitimate rebukes for a legitimate discussion.
I'm not exactly sure what exactly some people hope to accomplish by acting like that. There are a lot of people who have different beliefs than I do (Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, etc), but I have 0 impulse to poke fun of their beliefs or to be a pompous, sarcastic asshole to them about it. It's one thing to discuss and challenge their beliefs with mutual respect. Sitting there and being a prick about it is entirely different, and I just cannot understand the mentality of people who are like that. When it comes to other people's beliefs, I generally have one condition: don't be an asshole. Other than that, I couldn't care less whether some stranger on the internet believes in God or Allah or Zeus or no one. That some people are so perturbed by it and feel they have to be dicks to people who believe different, boggles my mind.
/rand over. (I've been having a lot of those)
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
