(October 1, 2017 at 1:38 am)Astonished Wrote: Considering he's defended slavery and women being treated as property like in the good book, it might have been more appropriate to throw that back in his smug lying face, but you do you. Considering his greatest skill is not realizing he doesn't know something that he thinks he does, it's a wonder there's still oxygen circulating in his system.
I take the good stuff where I can get it. If there's to be any common ground in this conversation, it won't do to automatically reject something because of who it's coming from -- and the "why" of a comment is something that only the speaker can fully understand.
And one reason I keep participating on forums like AF is to get a sense of the people behind the words. Can't spend my whole life being a stereotypical atheist slugging it out with a stereotypical believer...