If these resident theists really talk to god..

[Mister Agenda]

How is your perception of my response any different than how I was treated after I shared my battle with a deadly virus?

I'm pretty sure it was the other things you said that got a negative reaction.

You USED your father's condition as a panic stop to the conversation, and as leverage to try and dismiss everything I said.

Is THAT what they call 'giving a counter-example' in your world?

Which was based on my own observation dealing directly with death.

Which doesn't give you a special license to speak for other dying people.

This coupled with your response above makes you a terriable person and a hipocrite to boot.

You gloated at the way his father will have to submit to your God when he dies. You deserve everything you get.

You DID the VERY THING you Accused me of Doing!!!

He gloated at the idea you will have to submit to his God after you die?

But your not pissing all over what could potentialy be a made up condition concerning my Father, or what amounts to a hear say account of someone elses situation.. you've pissed all over what I had to say about my own dealings with HIV. with again what amounts to a hear say account of what you think your dad may or may not be going through.

Word-salad. Were you crying when you typed this?

...and further more I did not wish your Father ill. I told you he could still be potentially be Heaven bound, but because you and stimy look for only the ill will in others, you found the ill will you were looking for.

Plus the part about him converting to your religoin after he's dead.

Too bad you don't have the sense to see it is your own ill will looking back at you.

No matter how often it happens, you'll always be mystified at why people take little things like opining on the after-death fate of their loved ones or accusing American troops of lying because you didn't like the sign they were holding, as crossing a line. It's because you have a problem with boundaries. I don't know whether it's because people with such problems are attracted to fundamentalism or because fundamentalism causes people to become detached from conventional mores, but this isn't the first time I've come across it. Most recently it was 'Aren't you glad your mommy didn't get an abortion?' to a little girl in a wheelchair.

see above, and no i do not know who lucky is.

She is another counter-example against your claim to knowledge about what 'one' thinks about and does when 'one' is dying or thinks 'one' is dying. I am, too. Triple bypass at the age of 41. Open heart surgery and nine hours on an iron lung. Woke up strapped down with a breathing tube down my throat. Praying never crossed my mind.

I have prayed once, since then, though. My father is very devout, and for his sake I prayed that God would show me he is real, in some way I can believe, even if it's just the right words from the right person. If God is real, I want to know it. But I don't make a habit of asking things I don't believe in for favors.

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...What if I am indeed right. what is worse? failing to offer a platitude? or letting someone think their beloved Father is burning in Hell?

Fidel thinking his father would be burning in hell was never on the table.

The worse thing that you could do if you're right is present your ideas in an offensive way that would make it less likely for people to listen to them.

In future, instead of 'striving for neutrality', maybe you should try striving for decency.

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I am surprised to see Drich going as deep as he's going. Hell, he might just make GC jealous.

He did the same thing trying to put down soldiers. He's never seen a hole that didn't need more digging.