(June 11, 2012 at 9:53 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:It would be if that was aimed at you. I got one for you.
I'm aware it was aimed at everyone here. The tone was didactic and arrogant in my opinion. I'm sure others will tell me if my perception is oversensitive, in which case I will apologise.
Text is harder to detect inflection and intent than audio. I did not type that to be condescending or show off. I typed it because I think it is important.
The atheist voice was virtually nothing 11 years ago. And I do know how little I knew at the time I first called myself an atheist as compared to today. This is brain food for anyone who might not have considered it before.
And even today, as much as I think I know, which is not much compared to many atheist I read in books and many atheists posts whom I read, I am constantly getting new perspectives.
You see the increasing news stories about atheists, the increasing bus adds and billboards all over the country, someone is bound to see those and get on line being tired of being alone. Anything any of us can do here to better arm them and each other, helps.
Even repetition helps. What may be old hat to you is bound to be new to someone else. Like Hitchen's metaphor of heaven being "A celestial North Korea". I am sure before I first saw that on Youtube, there were hundreds of thosands who heard that before, but not me, so if he had only said that once and never repeated it, it wouldn't have gotten to me.
Rest assured I do not consider myself perfect nor do I want people to think I am always right, no one is ever right on all subjects all the time. Being right about one topic doesn't make one right about everything they claim, otherwise Newton's Alchemy would have been valid. That applies to everyone, including me.
I just offered that up for people to consider, nothing more.
