(April 20, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Sid Wrote: Sorry for the delay folks I had a beautiful Easter dinner with my friends and family. Jesus has risen! Purely outstanding! Perhaps I am completely naive as this is my first atheist forum, but I don't really understand the outward name calling. Is it customary on this site to make wild assertions of a persons character or purpose? Should I, in return, be as offensive to sound or appear to have more conviction? Folks, unless you haven't learned yet, just because your louder, angrier, aggressive, or treating, doesn't make you right. I've sat through too many conferences, meetings, or events to be swayed by other's agendas. No matter how passionate!
What is so promising or what is the compelling benefit a person would gain from being an atheist? Why am I inferior and you are superior?
Do you even remember that your first post here, your first post in this entire forum was nothing more than the heavy implication that the "average atheist" would endorse the rape of pre-pubescent girls in your view?
You want to talk about making "wild assertions of a person's character or purpose," you motherfucker? You want to talk about being offensive? You were the one who started out throwing shit, don't you dare act surprised when the people here, the people whose community you've entered into of your own free will and decided to besmirch for absolutely no reason other than that we dared believe something different to you without ever having met you before, get offended and angry at your absolutely outrageous comments. The fact that we've all heard them before, that they're just one more in a long line of hurtful stereotypes trotted out by your kind made to marginalize and diminish us, is only the beginning of why you deserve what you're getting.
Quote: Yes, I most assuredly pointed out that man is flawed and when left to their own devices have tendencies towards sin, or amoral behaviors. I NEVER made any such claim you had to believe in God to discern right from wrong.
So, your next bet is to outright lie to us? If you didn't think you needed god to discern right from wrong, then what was even the point of acting all confused as to why we weren't all down with raping kids?
Quote: Nonetheless, I posted because, yet again, a story regarding a religious cult gone wrong points the finger of hate toward any and all religion.
Your standard No True Scotsman fallacy.

Quote: But let me point out the fact that many more atrocities are carried out in secular society, go ahead and do your diligence on public school systems, impoverished countries with rogue governments, crime ridden pockets of cartels and human trafficking, and you will find countless examples of Godless people doing much worse and on a grander scale.
No you won't: the polls tend to indicate that the prisons, at least in America, are filled with the religious. And you don't see many secular witch hunts and cults, just saying.

Quote: Am I ashamed of Churches with scandals, cover ups, and less than impressive apologies, of course. That's inexcusable. But that's not what Jesus stood for. Humans are flawed. I follow Jesus. not you, not any of you, we have proven ourselves unworthy to follow!
Jesus stood for favoring the Israelites over anyone else in the world, continuing slavery, and beating people with whips. Are you following all that, or am I going to get more nonsense about context from you?

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