Cutting the head off Medusa

[Brian37]

To be fair, you did seem to go out of your way to ridicule her beliefs in the deism thread. I'm not saying you shouldn't be allowed to do so, but you should pick your battles.

What is the difference between one naked assertion and another?

I want my detractors here. I want people of ALL claims here. Not because I hate them, but to provide ALL with a perspective they have not considered. And quite frankly, like a hockey game, to try to put them in the penalty box as much as they try to put me into it.

Jefferson was a deist and I would blast him as much as I blast as I have blasted even atheists who have suggested that the Transporter from Star Trek is a possibility. And as much as I have blasted my own hero Sam Harris for his Buddhism woo, I love the guy, but not his claims that there is "something" to Buddhism. And even Victor Stinger objects to Sam's predilections on Buddhism.

I have another economic Libertarian atheist on another board that drives me far more nuts on economics than the beef I am having here with this Taoist.

I am NOT ridiculing her as a person. I have never met her. I know plenty of people whom make claims that make me pull my hair out INCLUDING PEOPLE I LOVE AND WORK WITH. If I disowned everyone who made an absurd claim, I would have to disown my own mother,

If I coward to every unkind thing said to me, or thought I was a bad person because someone objected to what I said, I would have killed myself a long time ago.