Feigned indignation and false maryterdom complex

[Brian37]

The jesus freaks pull out the "I'm offended" card when they find that their holy drivel makes no impact and they get told off.

Personally, I'm sick of their shit. Most of them don't want to learn anything.

Thanks for providing me another example.

Just saying "Jesus freaks" even if you leave out "I am sick of their shit", "Jesus freaks" alone would insult them.

Here is what miffs me about the well intended politically correct, there are even Christians that do accept and would be on our side by calling other Christians "Jesus freaks" and are as "sick of their shit" as we are.

I say to both atheists and believers don't get stuck on words and don't assume hate when you have disagreement.

I hate more demands of censorship than I would a Christian who likes me but is trying to argue that I am going to burn in hell. Sure, someone threatening me with hell is offensive to me, but not because the person claimed it, or even that it may personally offend me, the real offense to me is that there simply isn't any evidence for a hell to be frightened of.

My co workers alone are all some degree of believer and most of them literally believe that I am going to burn in hell and they do like me and don't want to see me suffer. It isnt their right to claim that that offends me, it is their lack of evidence that does.

But I have upon occasion when they have brought up the issue and I give them a blunt answer have said "You have a right to your opinion, but don't insult my god" and I even do that without cussing and they still get offended.

When they do that I get the image of a midget standing spread eagle in front of the Terminator shouting "Dont pick on my God, you might hurt him".

I think to myself "how can I, if we are going by your claim that your claimed deity is all powerful, then how can a finite puny person like me possibly hurt a god with mere words"?

And that brings me back to "insult" and "cussing". While words do have power, they are only limited to the power the person receiving them gives them.