RE: This Has to Stop
September 24, 2017 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2017 at 5:36 am by Amarok.)
(September 24, 2017 at 12:58 am)emjay Wrote:(September 24, 2017 at 12:44 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Except people are not eggs
Whatever dude. When I first came to this site I got torn to pieces by anti-theists, and that was an atheist; they just thought I was making religious arguments when I was just playing devil's advocate. But those people that tore me apart, I've now come to respect for doing that very thing. You need a thick skin on this site, and that helped develop whatever semblance I have of one.
Just because you learned to respect something does not mean it was the right way or a thing to be respected.
Quote:She repeatedly equated my rant against those who willfully brainwash a child in the most cynical of ways with the more passive teaching of it (the latter being the sort I was raised with, and was easily able to extricate myself from, hence my less stringent opinion on that). I corrected her on this at least twice and was ignored on both counts because, I guess, she just wanted to be mad about something. Not exactly her taking a high road here. She pretty much gave me no reason to hold back so I dived in. And like I said, most people on here were making the same point as me but just not being assholes about it. Hell, they even brought up a side of it I wasn't even willing to go to; teaching it as a fairy tail in the same sense as Jack and the Beanstalk seemed innocuous enough to me but apparently even that's a slippery slope. I didn't exactly believe anyone would really be able to present religion to their kids in that sort of way but in theory I figured if done that way, they'd be as critical of it at a young age as I was. Apparently it's more complicated than that either way.You and i must be reading two different threads . Because in mine you been chewed out and the kudos persistently favored CL . And she has not ignored you position it''s you who seems incapable of articulating your position in a that isn't confusing .
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