RE: I'm Outta Here!
December 11, 2008 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2008 at 11:25 am by Daystar.)
(December 11, 2008 at 11:06 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Yeahbut I'd rather say something like "That's fucking stupid!" than "You fucking idiot!".
Best of both worlds then because I'm not even attacking them but I still get to attack their argument and swear. But yes I'd only even do that if I really felt like it.
My favourite swearword vs theists really is generally "bullshit"
As a kid I was raised with the idea that there are no obscene words. Words are just words. I always sort of detested the notion that intellectual phonies were dictating to me that certain words were beneath them. Excrement and shit are the same. I know there are times in which one is more appropriate over the other, but they are ultimately the same.
When I first started to study the Bible I tried to censor my language but quickly realized that that too, was phony Xian morality. The Bible uses language pretty much the same as I always have.
Dungy idols means idols of shit. Cake baked in the excrement of man. Shit. The Jews and early Christians had a play on words which referred to Satan as the lord of shit.
On the one hand there are always people who think that one must refstrain oneself, that it is condusive to civil discourse, and I think that it is important to at least try and be respectful of the rules and the small society or community of a board, but on the other hand one of the reasons I prefer discussions with atheists over Xians is that there isn't as much a restriction on how one expresses oneself.
