Religious moderates enable religious extremists

[Esquilax]

Judging by all the invective and abusive ad hom ranting I'd say Sword of Christ has gotten the best of you Esquilax.

It looks like the only fighting going on is you fighting to stay calm.

We've spent several days jousting back and forth, culminating in him telling me flat out that he knows what I'm thinking better than I do. Since then, I've seen little reason to treat him gently.

Relax pal.
More reason - less emotional reaction.

Except that anger doesn't diminish a reasonable argument. I still stand by what I say; all the good things religion claims as its own come from the people involved and do not require religion. And, you know, I am angry at the way religions seem to snaffle up all the credit for these things: it only serves to further beat down good people with the idea that they're sinful reprobates capable of nothing good on their own. It's a cultivation of dependency on an idea that provides nothing of its own.

What's not to be mad about?

Yeah. Your focus DOES seem to be elsewhere.

Hey, Sword seems to be completely unassailable, in terms of reason. He won't back off on anything, even the things he couldn't possibly know- like, say, the contents of my head. I literally can't do anything for him.