(June 10, 2015 at 7:06 pm)Exian Wrote: That's exactly how I would have handled it. Anything else would have been self-sabotage. I'm more confrontational here (not by much) with theists, than IRL. But this place is like an agreement of sorts.
Precisely.
Theists who post on an atheist website are asking for conflict. They bring the controversy with them and we don't hesitate to challenge them.
But IRL—there is an African proverb: The lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of understanding.
Maybe if we followed that axiom here, all the Christians would go away, but then it wouldn't be any fun

The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.