Reply #96: Some progress at least [View All]

But boy, did you read this wrong!


I didn't make the accusation that you said, "evil vile atheists!"

I said that you'd respond AS IF other people, or myself, had made that accusation, and having responded AS IF that accusation had been made, stomp your feet demanding evidence for the accusation that exists only in your mind.

What I will say about your posting history is this: you will, almost without fail, leap into the fray the moment any atheist says nearly anything at all negative about religion. If there are atheists you like, or at least can stomach, for all anyone can tell here it's the ones who are so quiet about their views you'd never know they were atheists. Maybe an atheist could get away with a simple statement that he or she was an atheist if they dropped the matter right there, but I'd have to wonder if, even at that, some sort of accompanying disclaimer might not also be expected from said atheist about how much respect they hold for religious people, just to offset any possible harm to the delicate psyches of believers that a confrontation with the mere existence of atheism might cause.

You certainly act and post as if few things offend you more than an outspoken atheist. If you care to deny that, I'd be most curious as to what counts as "outspoken" in your mind. I have yet to see you defend an atheist or an atheist point of view from attack, I've seen only defense of belief and scathing words for atheists who cross whatever line you think they shouldn't cross. It's hard for atheists in this forum to see, wherever that line of yours is, that it is situated very far from merely reminding people that atheists exist.

As for the bit you quoted where you state your positions: thank you for that. But where did that come from? Not from this thread. Given the impression you make with constantly defending religion from perceived attack, and, at least not to my knowledge, showing any sort of balance in word count or enthusiasm for the defense of atheism, you shouldn't be surprised if people have a hard time either remembering or believing denials of theism on your part.

Given that it's very easy to state and restate one's positions (I do so for clarity all of the time), it's a tiresome game, and annoyingly coy, to so often play the game of acing like not only should everyone recheck an entire thread, but search your posting history, when a few words as needed would clear things up. You'd rather string things along spending much more time talking about what you didn't say, and demanding proof that you did say what you accuse someone of saying that you've said, than just saying what you'd want to say or mean to say and getting on with it.