RE: What meaning does love have to an atheist?
August 11, 2010 at 3:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2010 at 3:42 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(August 11, 2010 at 3:02 am)Edward the Theist Wrote: Hey, idiot. I think you know who I'm talking to. Don't even try to manipulate me into, "Oh, that's not what I meant. I dddddidn't mean that." Because I don't give a shit. My words stand as I have written them. I'm not responsible for whatever slant you want to put on them to build your stupid strawmen.
I've done no such strawman arguements. That would require that I twist your statements to something other than their intended meaning and since you've given me no reason to believe that I've done any such thing, I'm fine with the consequences of my methodology of countering your utterly nonsensical idiocy.
Frankly you can call our 'dance' whatever you want, but I'm not having a discussion with you (such that it is) becuase i want to and especially because I feel absolutely no privilage in it whatsoever. I'm doing so because I clearly cannot let the horrifying magnitude of your ignorant statements and arguements stand without a response from a rational and far more nuanced like of reasoning. I frequently demand that you respond not because I require some 'pity dance' as you claim I want, but because you never bother to with any discussion of any counterpoints anyone makes against your often ridiculous, ignorant, and abominably wrong claims.
Though I feel I have to give you credit for being right about something, it'll be that you're correct in there being a limited amount of time you'll have to casually and proudly insult and harass anyone who disagrees with you until someone finally bans you from this forum for being the troll you clearly are.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
