RE: Does the Bible Contradict Itself?
July 15, 2012 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2012 at 6:57 pm by Napoléon.)
You know, I've just looked back at this, and re-evaluated my response. I don't take back my apology, I am still apologetic in the way I personally came across to you.
However.
You have "Have never doubted that God exists, but I'm willing to lear why others do." in your religious views spockrates, but it seems to me it is actually you who does not wish to learn* what others think. It's actually you who does not enjoy talking to those who disagree. Hence why you appear to be running away from this forum.
Not everyone here is nice. The internet isn't nice. You've come onto an atheist forum, supposedly to ask us what we think. To try and understand what our positions are. However, you instead have offered a couple of threads which appear to 'challenge' us, to perform what I personally consider menial tasks that are entirely insulting to my, and your own intelligence. We have given you our opinions on these things. We do not ask that you like them, but you first of all, asked us for them. We shouldn't feel like we owe you anything for that.
You're getting the impression that you aren't welcome, but what exactly are you here to achieve? I actually think people have been quite reasonable, bar a few responses you had. But hey, that should be expected when you come onto a forum with entirely different views from your own, when you ask the kind of tired questions and 'challenges' you can go find out on your own using your own initiative.
I understand fully, that you may not have heard many of the arguments people on here use, you may not have heard the views that we express before, you may not understand the positions we hold. I get it, you don't personally think these questions are incredibly simple, and obvious, and unintelligent. But many of us here do, and it should be under your own initiative that if you were sincere in trying to understand us, that you would take heed of this very quickly, and not get offended by it.
But that's why I actually doubt your motivations for being here. You come onto the forum, ask us our opinions, and cry afterwards as though we are being unwelcoming. All the while signing every post with a smiley face, because we all know little ol' you is only here because you want to learn.
Yeah, right.
Actions speak louder than words.
Jog on.
However.
You have "Have never doubted that God exists, but I'm willing to lear why others do." in your religious views spockrates, but it seems to me it is actually you who does not wish to learn* what others think. It's actually you who does not enjoy talking to those who disagree. Hence why you appear to be running away from this forum.
Not everyone here is nice. The internet isn't nice. You've come onto an atheist forum, supposedly to ask us what we think. To try and understand what our positions are. However, you instead have offered a couple of threads which appear to 'challenge' us, to perform what I personally consider menial tasks that are entirely insulting to my, and your own intelligence. We have given you our opinions on these things. We do not ask that you like them, but you first of all, asked us for them. We shouldn't feel like we owe you anything for that.
You're getting the impression that you aren't welcome, but what exactly are you here to achieve? I actually think people have been quite reasonable, bar a few responses you had. But hey, that should be expected when you come onto a forum with entirely different views from your own, when you ask the kind of tired questions and 'challenges' you can go find out on your own using your own initiative.
I understand fully, that you may not have heard many of the arguments people on here use, you may not have heard the views that we express before, you may not understand the positions we hold. I get it, you don't personally think these questions are incredibly simple, and obvious, and unintelligent. But many of us here do, and it should be under your own initiative that if you were sincere in trying to understand us, that you would take heed of this very quickly, and not get offended by it.
But that's why I actually doubt your motivations for being here. You come onto the forum, ask us our opinions, and cry afterwards as though we are being unwelcoming. All the while signing every post with a smiley face, because we all know little ol' you is only here because you want to learn.
Yeah, right.
Actions speak louder than words.
Jog on.
