RE: Rant against anti-atheist agnostics.
September 23, 2014 at 2:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2014 at 2:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If you ever find me in that situation, please remind me of myself and feel free to hit me over the head with a brick. Imagining that I may someday betray some of my most closely held ideals (ignoring that I've already been given that opportunity and have shown my conviction) is what...exactly? Am I clubbing you for your beliefs? Am I proposing that you ought to be clubbed for your beliefs? Am I defending those that would club you for your beliefs? Am i describing how virtuous it would be to club you for your beliefs? Is defending someone from a religious zealot in some way laying -my- misdeeds on that zealot and clubbing him for them?
Now, juxtapose that against every description that any of you have offered of vicarious redemption and the nature of the crucifixion (and the flat out refusal to argue against those principles in fairly easy situations offered every other post).
IOW, go fuck yourselves with your pious garbage - and take the field leveling nonsense with you on the way out. I may one day become an immoral hypocrite, but today isn't that day, and meanwhile......
Now, juxtapose that against every description that any of you have offered of vicarious redemption and the nature of the crucifixion (and the flat out refusal to argue against those principles in fairly easy situations offered every other post).
IOW, go fuck yourselves with your pious garbage - and take the field leveling nonsense with you on the way out. I may one day become an immoral hypocrite, but today isn't that day, and meanwhile......
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