(May 20, 2017 at 5:59 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:Yes, once I realized you were using the word that way, I knew it was this difference making us think we were disagreeing when in essence, we all have the same view on this issue.(May 20, 2017 at 2:23 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I should have been clearer. When I say "criticize," I don't mean mock. I use the word in a more rhetorical way. To point out the flaws in a proposition. When you make a proposition in an open forum that proposition is open to criticism. If the logic behind the proposition is way over the top, it may even be open to ridicule.
I speak as one who has been the subject of such criticism right here on AF, and you may have read my responses to it. If someone proves to me that I am wrong, I concede. If the criticism is flawed, I say why I think it is. criticism is flawed, I say exactly why I think it is so.
Ah I see.
Yeah, that sounds perfectly sensible to me. I wouldnt even call that criticism, really, just discussion and voicing disagreements.
I was referring more to general unprovoked mockery of others beliefs (or lack of). Like if I just went on a rant about how dumb the belief in Mohamed or Joseph Smith or Buddha is, or started picking on a friend about having those beliefs or about being atheist. Now that i dont get.
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The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.