Russia embraces religious intolerance with draconian blasphemy and anti-gay laws

[Statler Waldorf]

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I tried this once. Didn't work. I read all the forum rules very carefully and made a post violating none of them, not being angry, and carefully missing any curse words.

The post was immediately deleted and my account banned. Boom. One post banning.

I was pretty proud of myself.

The smallest number of posts it's taken me to get banned from an atheist forum was 3 posts. So doing 1 with a Christian forum while not violating any rules was a real feather in my cap.

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Interesting, I would have liked to have read what you posted. What Christian forum was this? Why were you banned from the atheist forum in 3 posts? I’ve actually never been banned.

...in which case, they should have left the arguments up there for people to read and laugh at. Just like how I quote you in my signature. When the other side makes a bad argument, you don't censor it. You copy and paste it for others to read. You celebrate it as an epic failure by the other side. You only delete, censor and try to hide arguments that are so devastating that censorship is your only recourse.

I love the fact you’ve allowed me to demonstrate to the world in your own signature that you do not know what “begging the question” means! It’s done far more damage to your own image than I could have ever done on my own. That being said, how do you know that the Christian forum doesn’t just have a standard of merit that your posts are not living up to and that’s why they are being deleted? I doubt Nature and Science reject articles for publishing because they are “just too awesome!”

Some arguments are so bad, you don't refute them but proudly quote them. Others are so nonsensical that you can't offer an argument against it but leaving it un-refuted does nothing for the other side.

That’s funny, “Grizzly Bears are so weak I do not bother wasting my time wrestling them!”

And some arguments, such as mine, are just sound and therefore you cannot refute them so you do not try. I am on to your tactics!

Your arguments are very easy to refute, and yet I take the time to refute them because I realize that the quickest way to lose a debate is by allowing an argument to stand un-refuted. You obviously have not learned that yet, which is why you lose again and again.

I would not think such an argument needs to be "refuted" as it was nonsensical and proves nothing. That's how I see your presuppositional apologetic argument for Jesus.

Cute, but that’s yet another faulty analogy (your calling card apparently), that argument fails because the conclusion does not follow from the premises, so it’s not valid. Point to any of my arguments that are logically invalid? You cannot do so, the reason you do not respond to them is because you know they are sound and therefore cannot be refuted (it’s obviously not for the sake of time because you’ve wasted all of this time explaining why you do not reply to them).

A better analogy…

DP: I do not believe 22 is an even number!
SW: P1] All numbers divisible by 2 are even numbers
P2] 22 is divisible by 2
C] Therefore, 22 is an even number
DP: That argument is not even worthy of reply! 22 is not an even number!

So small time.

I also get tired of saying, "Bare assertion; prove it. Bare assertion; prove it. Bare assertion; prove it." Your last post that I left un-refuted only offered a list of bare assertions that you call "proof". Everyone can see that, so no rebuttal is needed.

I get tired of you misusing that term as well. A bare assertion is an assertion that has no reason behind it, not only do all of my assertions have reasons behind them, but I also gave those reasons. Now they are standing nicely un-refuted, everyone can see that.

But you go ahead and confuse you wearing me down with ad neuseum claims with "victory". I shall not spoil your celebration.

My oh my, you’re like the fat kid whose been lapped in the race and does not want to continue the race because his opponent is “too slow to present a challenge”, the excuses are coming hard and fast. Obviously you’re not that worn down if you are willing to spend so much effort claiming your too worn down to debate anymore, tuck tail and run- you’ve been beaten handedly.

As you know from me, I very rarely cuss and I do not personally attack my opponent.

I will give you credit, that statement is true. I enjoy our debates, you provide enough of a challenge to keep things interesting and you avoid this sort of filth. Kudos. I actually believe your story (although I doubt it was because your arguments were just too awesome), I have heard that many Christian forums ban members and delete posts too easily. I think a lot of it has to do with the mentality of the modern evangelical church, there’s a prevailing mentality that people should avoid debating because it’s seen as conflict. It’s almost a bizarre form of Christian post-modernism (it’s ok to believe whatever you want about the Bible as long as you believe it with your heart and do not debate it). Like I said, you’d be welcome in my forum my friend (but there'd probably only be two of us in there).