(May 11, 2014 at 12:00 am)Revelation777 Wrote:(May 10, 2014 at 1:52 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Good luck with that. When that happens, when ol' "Pity Me" decides to show his beardy face, give me a call. In the meantime, I'll thank you to keep your preachy platitudes and contemptuous condemnations to your sanctimonious self, m'kay?
Did you get offended?
Were you trying to offend? The point that you cannot be this dense to appreciate is that I for one don't care what you say you believe is going to happen. What I am objecting to is your tone of preachy condescension, your air of supercilious superiority. I'm not offended at your mythology nor your take on it - I'm offended that you consider there's something broken in me that only you and your religion can fix, such that I can be 'saved' like you.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'