Are there any Christian proselytizers left in this subforum?

[The Grand Nudger]

No YOU'RE shitting the bed.

I've thought about this. If you are out to do genocide, any gaggle of goons will do. 

Will they?  History begs to differ.

What is a "goon" anyway? Perhaps a good working definition of a goon is someone who just does what they are asked, gets paid, and then moves on without reflecting too much on what was done. Why does capitalism continue to work? Meh. There's a lot of goons out there.

You wanna talk about goons. I wanna talk about capitalism. Let's return to the original point: theists on the forum.

Sure...capitalists in some sense as motivated and certain as theists ( theres broad overlap..murrica!) can do horrible things.  The fact that other groups..ignoring their overlap, can do horrible things, isn't exactly a defense of the initial group that does horrible things.  

I say good. It's good that theists are here. To me, they are like mushrooms in the forest. By-and-large, they are just there. Some are eyesores. Others contribute to the overall aesthetic. But some of them... some of them will take you on a journey you never imagined (if you sit down and take a bite).

Right, and I say it's not actually good that theists are -anywhere-.....but if a few theists come here and end up distancing themselves from their theism as a consequence in a way that might preclude all of the stupid shit people do because of their theism..well..sure, that's a good thing.  

Notice..it's good only because it might produce a reduction in theistic motivation.  What journey is a theist supposed to be able to take me on that an atheist couldn't?

I feel like you thinking that the forum should be without theists is similar to someone thinking a forest should be without mushrooms. It's absurd on the face of it. An ecologist would come in and state that (if this was done) the forest would become lifeless. And, just because you are anti-mushroom, you would rather the forest be without mushrooms--even the beautiful ones, even the ones that can take you on journeys.

My suggesting Twatter to you was basically this: if you so despise the forest, why not walk on the plain?

Mushrooms don't chemically castrate homos because they think god doesn't like them.

Still shitting the bed.

The irony, anyway...is that I love the forest, theists are the ones that don't really give a fuck for it. There's their god..and then all of the fake gods. Biblical innerrancy and myths. I like their stories, understand their stories, and can communicate their stories..better than they can..and this too..is a product of their silly theism. Adding nothing...poisoning everything. Nine times out of ten..you can't even count on a theist to correctly describe their own cults teaching.........

Lay all criticism from antitheism aside, and just mull that one over............holy shit....? Even -that- doesn't stop them from doing dumb shit and thinking god wills it.

(I don't think that theism is particularly beautiful...btw, regardless of how pretty any given story is)

You've probably heard of hitchens razor, yeah? Not first expressed by him but most recently and forcefully so. Name a single good thing that only a believer can do. Now name a bad thing that only a believer can do. How quick did you come to one answer, in comparison to the other? Now consider every single one of your comments again.