MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2)

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You can spare me the rhetoric, all I want to know is can I move to part 3 without my thread being messed with by the forum gods??

Yes or no? And I am asking you directly since you were the one that came up with that shitty idea in the first place.

And the short answer is we don't know, since the determination to merge threads depends very much on the content of the thread in question, how distinct it is to any other threads the OP has made, how varied the content or discussion is. We don't have a one size fits all answer because we take things on a case by case basis, and since we merged your threads based on content and not this strange vendetta you seem to think we have against you, we have no way of knowing whether your part 3 will be a candidate for merging until you write it.

You could just save us all the time and bother and write your part three here in this thread, but by now you've taken this (minor, inoffensive) example of mod action as a threat to your pride, you'll no doubt just have to make an additional thread no matter what the rational, mature course of action would be.

You can however get banned for being an arsehole.

Do atheists get banned for being assholes?

Yes, actually. Assuming they do it sufficient to be labelled disruptive, we do just that. One of the last people we banned who wasn't just a spam account was an atheist.

You're right that making an assertion of bias in advance of a disagreement is not just poor form, it's fatuous, and I wasn't disagreeing with that point of yours. I was simply pointing out that bias is bias no matter what brought it about. It behooves us to be alert to it at all times in our thinking, I'm sure you'll agree, and part of that, to my way of thinking, is to avoid minimizing it.

Fair enough. I certainly wouldn't deny that we're subject to our own individual preconceptions.