(July 28, 2017 at 10:05 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: When we bring our grievances with someone across threads, it turns new threads into rehashes of arguments that could have been left behind. This could have been an interesting thread, but it's all about shaming RR shaming instead, and it started before he even made a single post.
Nobody is trying to shame anyone for cutting to the chase. Sure it is blunt, but all it is saying is "That was then, this is now."
They came here, we did not put a gun to their head and nobody is going to stab them to death or have them arrested. I simply personally don't like wading down their Yellow Brick Road. And I am not singling one person or one religion out for that matter.
Nobody in antiquity anywhere in the world had the modern knowledge the world has today. It was understandable that people made that stuff up and sold that stuff back then when they didn't know any better, but we know better now. I simply cannot take that book, or any mythology seriously beyond simply treating it as mere literature. No holy writing of any religion has any super powers or magic powers. Our species was around long before any written religion in any case.
At best i certainly am certainly trying to cause some cognitive dissonance but that's it. But and blasphemous sure. But it would be the same if I had a friend or family member repeatedly claiming, "The New England Patriots beat the Chicago Cubs in the Stanley Cup." I may like or love you outside that claim, but why should the claim itself get a free pass?
