Pastor "tries on" atheism for a year, is promptly fired by his Christian employers.

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The subject matter in your thread and in the headlines was that a pastor got fired, so i addressed the pastor part. Who cares if a researcher get fired or even a professor?

Well, for one, I care: it's symbolic, to me, of the way christianity discourages investigation, which was part of the reason for my creating the thread in the first place. Are you seriously saying that you decided to focus on the single sentence about him getting fired from his (not a pastor!) job with a church, when the rest of the article made it fairly clear that more was going on, in addition to my own OP showing what it was that was being discussed?

neither. Your stated intentions of this thread per the title was a pastor getting fired. That is what i chose to speak on.

Liar, then.

I did not read the whole artical, I stopped at the point where it identified his role as a pastor, and then spoke to that once I had enough info to support my beliefs.

That support for your beliefs apparently started mid sentence, because the one sentence that you're determined to lie about focusing on said he was a consultant on a non-profit venture, and not a pastor at all.

I know what you though, because I chose my words carfully. As i do with everything I speak on.

Do you find all the back tracking hard?

No, this is an attempt to help you frame out a title and topic to reflect what it is you want to discuss verses a transparent attempt to bait and switch.

Bait and switch? The entirety of the article I linked to, bar one sentence concerned the guy being fired from his theology school, and yet somehow I'm bait and switching you? See, my thread here didn't just have a title, Drich: it had what's called an "Original Post" to add context to the discussion being proposed. Perhaps you could pay attention to that next time, assuming anyone is buying this bullshit excuse you're selling?

I freely admit I did not read the whole artical. The guy is a douche because he like you is using his job as a pastor to sell a story no one would otherwise give two squirts about.

He was never a pastor at the time he was fired. He was chronicling his experiences with this experiment- which his getting fired happened to be a part of- on his own recognizance, and the Friendly Atheist happened to pick up on it. Nobody is selling a story, something you would know if you actually bothered to read the whole article, rather than the one sentence in it you felt justified in disagreeing with.

You know, it's staggering to me that you'll admit that you aren't in possession of all the facts, completely fail to rectify that, and then still act like you haven't made an error, and have in fact been tricked by us atheists. Your ego must be generating it's own weather systems.