RE: Purchasing One's Atheism Cheaply
October 14, 2013 at 8:40 am
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2013 at 8:59 am by Zazzy.)
I didn't say I agreed with Deidre. I said you are playing word games to contort her view, seemingly to the end of patronizing her and calling her stupid. And your response was to contort my words, seemingly to get to the same end. I think you can be better than that; and if we could ever get past the "definition game" we could probably have a decent conversation.
*Edit- Perhaps I am a dew-eyed naif, but is it so unreasonable to think that playing the old political "So you deny that you beat your wife?" game is boring? I don't understand theism, and I'd like to understand it better, but all the purposeful misunderstandings and bobbing and weaving and word games make that hard. And Vinny, its certainly not confined to you- I've seen plenty of atheists play the same games. Instead of starting from a position of "how can I make you look stupid and wrong," why not start from a more generous position?
*Edit- Perhaps I am a dew-eyed naif, but is it so unreasonable to think that playing the old political "So you deny that you beat your wife?" game is boring? I don't understand theism, and I'd like to understand it better, but all the purposeful misunderstandings and bobbing and weaving and word games make that hard. And Vinny, its certainly not confined to you- I've seen plenty of atheists play the same games. Instead of starting from a position of "how can I make you look stupid and wrong," why not start from a more generous position?
