(November 15, 2016 at 3:50 pm)Edward John Wrote:(November 15, 2016 at 3:44 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Can you recognize sarcasm if it bites you on the nose?
Can you walk me through how being arrogant and condescending will help you accomplish that?
Now I feel free to be a little harsh with you. If I had my way and was the king of atheism, you wouldn't be allowed to become an atheist until I was satisfied you would do a better job of representing us than you do of representing Christians. Starting with the bizarre font use. So I've no particular reason to consider what effect my approach could have on your attitude or chances of giving up Christianity. To the slight degree that I think Christianity is something people should avoid believing, you're doing a better job of showing people the flaws of that belief system than you likely could as an atheist, so I'm kind of hoping you won't deconvert from theism.
However, if I really wanted to persuade you, I would listen to you, consider what you have to say, try to understand what your position really is and how you came to hold it; and use your feedback to improve my approach, grateful for any flaws you've pointed out in my reasoning, because knowing them can only make my arguments stronger if I'm in the right. And without even caring a whit about persuading you personally, I've still managed to do a better job of all that with you than you have with any of us.
What do you mean you've still managed to do better? all you showed me is your opinion. So you haven't proven me anything so far and on the contrary. I was ignoring nothing of substance. Dare I say, there wasn't any for me to ignore. All you are giving was assumptions and opinions and unsubstantiated claims.
Pot, meet kettle.
Seriously, trying to talk to you is like having a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
