RE: Deadliest religion ever?
March 25, 2017 at 7:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2017 at 7:44 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 25, 2017 at 5:43 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(March 25, 2017 at 2:16 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The scare quotes indicate that 'stoned to death' implies the biblical sense of stoning and even if an atheist used that biblical reason the whole point is it's not meant to be taken that literally and that even if there are exceptions where atheists did 'stone someone to death' under biblical reasons that's just another example of religion doing harm as religion couldn't be used for an excuse if religion didn't exist.
No one was ever 'stoned to death' by an atheist means "atheism never causes biblically based stoning but the bible certainly can cause it."
So what you think is that the statement "No one has ever been 'stoned to death' by an atheist." means that people have most likely been stoned to death by atheists but not for biblical reasons. But also that it could be for biblical reasons.
From what I've read up on scare quotes aren't used that way.
No...that's not what I said.
I said that people have only ever been 'stoned to death' for biblical reasons.
And yes scare quotes absolutely are used to mean not to take the statement literally.
You are being intentionally obtuse now. It's extremely clear what I meant and obvious that it doesn't mean that no atheist has ever thrown rocks at people until they die. The scare quotes were used for a reason. You're not this dense, you strawmanning fuckwit, it was extremely clear what I meant and you know it was and you blatently don't care about the truth and you only care about the appearance of it.
You're not that dense but I was gullible to deign to explaining something so obvious when you clearly understood it in the first place and pretended not to. Talk about disingenous. Why am I talking to you when if I say 2+2=4 you're happy to pretend it's 6 and then insist I asked what 3+3 was when I correct you?
(March 25, 2017 at 5:53 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You see.... you get stoned for saying "Jehovah"
You don't get stoned for not saying "Jehovah."
And when an atheist stones someone to death for saying "Jehovah" They only get away with it by pretending to believe in it. And they wouldn't get away with it by pretending to believe in it if no one believed in it.
The whole point in either case if someone gets stoned to death for saying "Jehovah" it's religion that's the cause of that.
Of course this wouldn't need explaining if someone wasn't pretending to be dense.
