I was defriended. Oh the joys!

[everythingafter]

I love how believers are so cocksure that their god cares about them and their loved ones, but the moment you begin to call their beliefs into question, their defense mechanisms go into overdrive. If they were really that sure, why do they get bent out of shape? I took out the names, but here is me getting myself defriended. And sorry for the wall of text or whatever it's called. I don't think that particular thread would have a public link. In truth, I probably should have left it alone (since I "leave alone" a large daily offering of stuff like this from former fellow believerson FB) but water under the bridge now.

Friend said:
Cancer-
I have a personal
reason for ASKING if everyone could please put this as their status
for one
hour. I know my family will. Think of someone you know or love who has had
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Yesterday at 10:21pm
Someone likes this.

Me: Not to sound crass. Your omniscient god already knows the cure. He simply has yet to pass it down to us and apparently withholds it willingly (or in his all-powerfulness, refuses to squash it himself, which he could in one breath since he created the world in the same breath). I have an uncle and grandfather who have died of cancer, so I totally share your sympathies.
Yesterday at 10:59pm

Friend: ... are you becoming an apologist for aetheism? Especially as it relates to my friends list??? I'll be honest, it is becoming tiresome. You asked for space from me and I gave it to you but if you are going to continue to come on with this constant sense of nearly brutal apologistic claptrap...our friendship is in the balance. What do you have to gain if you have not spiritual belief? Why must you berate my friends...when the VAST majority of the GLOBE believes in some for of god or GOD. So, back off, please.
Yesterday at 11:13pm · 2 people

Me: ... atheism doesn't need apologists. It's the default view because all other views need all the explaining. I didn't berate anyone and even said I was sympathetic to any cures that might surface for cancer. And I welcome any proposed cures because, heck, if we live long enough, sooner or later, cancer will get us. I don't believe what I said was claptrap. How does God handle cancer in this world? Just another curse of mankind? Or something he can't (or won't) cure? If he is all-loving and all-powerful, he seems (I'm sorry for offending you) to be willingly allowing it to persist or unable to cure it.

I am sorry for offending, and I want to remain your friend, but surely you can see the inconsistency with the idea of an all-loving, all-powerful God. Right now, as I type, he knows the cure! If he is omniscient, he knows the cure for cancer! And this is striking to me.
23 hours ago · 1 person

Another person who jumped in: Interesting conversation guys! Sorry to cut in, but an arguement can be made for atheism being the default position. Atheism actually has apologists (Dawkins, Hitchens...) simply because in our daily experience, complex design has a designer. Without exception. One would never examine an automobile and wonder how it was randomly created. However, athiest look at something billions of times more complex than an automobile and assume no designer. The question of why God chooses to reveal himself in various ways also is a fascinating topic! A few answers (and still more questions) are found in Job. I would encourage you guys to keep up the dialogue. God is not offended by the critical thinker.

I was preparing an answer to the latter person, but learned that I had been defriended when I couldn't comment any further. *Shrugs*

[Anomalocaris]

After seeing the profiles and posts of some of the most wormy of christians on FB, I now avoid befriending on FB those christians who do not possess such minimal residual sanity and decorum as might enable them to refrain from oozing the most insipid aspects of their devotion all over their profiles for the innocent public to suffer.

[KichigaiNeko]

Never mind eta. I just keep my FB page to contact those I WANT to contact (namely family and a few select friends)

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

@Everythingafter:

I have very few friends on Facebook,and only link with people with whom I'm simpatico.

It's hurtful, but you are well rid of such an immature,shallow an unaccepting person.

[everythingafter]

@Everythingafter:

I have very few friends on Facebook,and only link with people with whom I'm simpatico.

It's hurtful, but you are well rid of such an immature,shallow an unaccepting person.

Thanks. I thought I made a logical case, but these folks are too shortsighted to see any light of reason.

[Welsh cake]

Why must you berate my friends...

Well, that was a short exchange, despite you being respectful and civil throughout, your "friend" on the other hand proved by their emotional outburst they were incapable of any mature discussion.

Reading their response it sounds like this little jerkwad never regarded you as a friend in any instance.

Retrospectively you were "detrolled" as opposed to defriended.

[BlackUnicorn]

I do the de-friending and vetting myself, as a result I have 29 or less friends, don't need more.

[Rwandrall]

Expressing your religious views in public, whether they be for or against theism, is considered rude when unsolicited. Since this person did not seem to reference God in their post, it seems you were the rude one by bringing up religion in an unrelated topic i'm afraid :/

[BlackUnicorn]

Never mind eta. I just keep my FB page to contact those I WANT to contact (namely family and a few select friends)

Which is the best way to go about it, better to have people you know on there rather than people who just befriend you because they are friends of friends, of friends of friends.

[Edwardo Piet]

I keep doing this strange thing where I delete all, or almost all, of my contacts on MSN, Facebook, Twitter etc. I need to stop doing that.