This Has to Stop

[Astonished]

Emjay...I think you're the sweetest. That's why I named you Squishy. I don't think you've been an asshole in this thread (or any thread for that matter) at all. You know how to have a different opinion without wishing death on someone. I haven't thoroughly examined this thread, but what I've read from you I've agreed with.

In a more general way of looking at it, I agree with some of the things astonished thinks too (not all but some). What I disagree with is the way he treats people.

You haven't lost me as a friend. I love ya, Squishy <3

Thanks Losty I just wish I'd never posted in this thread... all it's brought out is negativity

I really don't know what I can say about this whole situation. I can't deny I admire outspoken anti-theists because they have more confidence than I could ever have... except on a really bad day. I didn't see much difference between Astonished and other swear-every-other-word anti-theists like Minimalist, but yeah there is a difference if he's making it personal and wishing violence on everyone. But I still think he's made a lot of good points since he came here... it's just that delivery could be improved... but I'm in no hurry to ask him, or Minimalist for that matter, to be more polite without expecting a shit-load of f-bombs to be coming my way It's not my way of talking but each to their own on that... that's the only way it can be.

I'd have actually held back quite a bit since I joined the site if I hadn't seen Min so wild and freely throwing the well-deserved middle fingers around so I just enjoyed the freedom that seemed to prompt. Perhaps some more restrictive rules on content would have encouraged more docile discussions. But they'd be less fun.

Bottom line, I see this kind of predatory infection of young minds as harmful in the extreme and would not bat an eye to see someone willfully and malignantly doing that being hit by lightning if that meant stopping them from inflicting a lifelong impediment to rational thinking (among other things) on an unwitting innocent. Because the consequences of that harm inevitably reaches beyond the singular mind of their victims and perpetuates this madness across the globe and across generations like the most pernicious virus we've ever discovered, it's more than just a matter of one person being victimized. If there was some innocuous and harmless way of preventing this indoctrination from affecting children, then whatever, again, I'll just point and laugh at the brainwashers' fruitless efforts while they tear their hair out as their threats of hell and guilt trips about sin fall on deaf ears. But since that's not realistic (there's no chemical vaccine against that kind of psychological poison), and none of the agents of indoctrination seem to even consider that they might be doing wrong in any way, and no legislators are going to do shit to protect the rights of these kids from being violated, it's impossible not to feel like this injustice deserves to be remedied by some force of nature, whatever form that might take. It's just too bad some actual cosmic justice system doesn't exist. I wouldn't approve of something like hell, since punishment after the fact is not going to fix the damn problem, just something that stays the hands (or mouths) of anyone trying to make children believe in the worst sort of lies imaginable.