Fuck This "Xtian Nation" Shit!

[Cyberman]

LMAO! With a Title like this thread has: I'M HELD TO TASK!?

As is anyone who posts here, myself included. You are not being singled out for special treatment; you do not deserve special treatment. Grow a backbone. And do stop shouting.

This is like some weird carnival funhouse.... The one with the distorted glass!

I agree. Probably not for the same reasons, though.

I say something sincere and it comes back all screwy looking! Sorta like paper through a shredder.

Then perhaps your posts aren't capable of withstanding the shredding? Or perhaps they only appear "screwy looking" because they are?

All you are interested in really.... is amusing yourselves with whatever rebellious thought that pops into your heads. Like little school brats picking on the new kid because he don't look like them.

Only if your definition of "rebellious thoughts" includes not agreeing with you. As a general rule, atheism and/or scepticism does not necessarily imply disagreement for disagreement's sake; while there may be such people around, most of us who self-identify as atheist don't take up the contrary position out of sheer bloodymindedness, merely because we can.

It always amuses me to see posts like this, complaining about how we "pick on the new kid" or somesuch. I always get this mental image of, say, an Einstein or a Dawkins standing in front of a peer-review committee, stamping their foot and sulking because others have the temerity to question their research and not just take their word for it. Now I've ensured that you get this image too.

I'm starting to realize...It's not about truth and open-mindedness here. It's about closed-mindedness & lies. "No one Christian could possibly have a good idea, or anything constructive to say!"

Look up the difference between open-mindedness and credulous; you might want to throw in gullible as well. As for lies, a glance at some recent posts just in this thread alone reveals lies and distortions propogated as statistics by certain of our number.

As an aside, since we're on the subject of honesty, I do wish you would refrain from using quotation marks to emphasise your own words. It may look pretty but it does carry the implication that you are quoting some third-party source. I'm not sure how or even if the rules would apply to such tricks, but you are essentially asserting that the quoted phrase is an actual statement made by someone here, when in fact the only person who used the words attributed in your pseudoquote is you.

Even in the "face of God" you would tell him: "I Will NOT ______" (Enter your own complaint). Because that's WHAT YOU ARE!

OH REALLY? WHAT AM I THEN? See how that looks? Doesn't it look as though I just lost my temper with your callous disregard for your fellow humans' status as people, considering and castigating them as objects ("WHAT") rather than individuals (who)? Let me make one thing clear, if nothing else: you absolutely do have the right to your own opinion. You absolutely have the right to enquire our opinions. You absolutely do not have the right to dictate to us our opinion and I resent your doing so.

As has been already stated, in the "Face of God", whatever that may mean in practise and if such a thing is even remotely likely, I would not act in the manner you ascribe so officiously to your critics. It shouldn't take a genuis to work out why that would be. In fine, if I were confronted by a being who could demonstrate to the point of incontrovertible proof to me that it really is a genuine, bona fide god, I would no longer be an atheist! It really is that simple!

But I guess it's meant to be. Without people like you I'd have nothing to strive for in life!

And here you go again with the high-handed disregard for the rights and opinions of others - "people like you". What a shallow and empty little life you must lead, having to leech off others in order to give it meaning. I feel sorry for you.