(February 9, 2010 at 1:39 pm)Zhalentine Wrote: I don't know whether you're being intentionally thick, misunderstood what I meant, or arguing for the sake of arguing. Like I said, people don't look down upon atheists because of the good deeds we do. They look down upon us because of what a few among the majority do. The same thing can be observed with Muslims. Some people think all middle eastern people are Muslim terrorists because they see a few Muslims doing terrorist acts and think the rest hold the same beliefs. No where in my argument do I say that I support this line of thinking, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.
Quote:It's a shame a handful of atheists make the rest look bad.
The fact that people hear the stupid things atheists say and think all atheists believe the same thing justifies my claim. You can claim that the line of thinking is irrational all you want, but sadly your opinion doesn't change how some people in the world think.
Quote:Irrational behavior does not invalidate rational processes - it merely means that one is irrational. And assigning blame and responsibility through the actions of irrationality is illogical, irrational and a failure on the part of a rational being.
Way to go from one childish act to another. This is the strawman of all strawman. I don't think you could have misrepresented my position any more, and to do it in a spot where I can't refute is cowardly.
I emboldened the sentences of which I based the majority of my refutations on. In each successive post, you have further defended your statement, culminating in a form of argument that states that people will be irrational, so the previous actions taken are allowable.
Further, you claim I am childish and cowardly, but you neither specify where or even bother refuting what I've posted. So you throw out invectives yourself, but do not confront anything I have posted, nor have you refuted it. Please note in the final sentence of my previous post, I actually bothered to annotate it saying that I actually thought that is where you are going, and I honestly thought that is the underlying thought. I justified that statement with previous sentences and posts.
You have no refuted my final points, nor have you justified that the irrational opinions of irrational people are cause to take such an action that you took previously (in this case, blame). Yet you claim it is a strawman while failing to correct any misconception.
How terribly useful.
(February 9, 2010 at 3:23 pm)Gilligan Wrote: Why do you like to help fulfill Bible prophecy which says men will get more wicked in the Last Days?
Begging the question. Up yours.



