(April 17, 2012 at 1:15 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Can someone tell me what this 'important message' is? I must of missed it.The message is that today, theists are insecure enough in their beliefs that they feel the need to make up (and chain e-mail/post) stories that portray atheists as petty, mean-spirited people with flimsy arguments.
From the appeals it makes (popular opinion, strawman, appeal to authority via einstein, and ad-hom if you consider the characterizations of the debaters) this is propaganda to a t. And it's tailored for the (intellectually lazy) religious who don't want to put any real thought/effort into theodicity...