(September 20, 2013 at 5:04 pm)Beta Ray Bill Wrote: Well, I didn't call any Christian on here a bad name. I just insulted their ideas. Maybe that was bad. I'm married to a Christian, and I'd never call her ideas "shallow-minded, arrogant bullshit" unless I wanted a divorce. Which I do not.
It's just so hard to keep a positive attitude when theistic people don't even consider my ideas worthy of consideration. If only to hear, just once, "okay, maybe you've got a point." Oh, it would be ecstasy!
I don't understand the assumption that any failure to persuade is always the fault of the person who isn't persuaded.
If I don't want to buy your used car it [i]might[\i] be that I can't recognise a bargain when I see it. But it might also be because you aren't a very convincing sales person.
The theist/apologist who is willing to have an AvT discussion with you is at least giving you a chance to make the sales pitch.
[i]...oh but Lion Atheists aren't SELLING anything[\i]
Fair enough. No persuasive burden of proof. Suits me fine.
Feel free to remain unpersuasive for as long as you like.
