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[DemPGH]

Hmm. So basically when the religionists get offended because someone performs some rather unique analysis that throws them into fits of dissonance, they come dump it here and try to pillory, in a manner of speaking, the individual? No surprise. Very expected behavior, I must say, if History is to be any guide.

There's a book called Why People Believe Strange Things, and it goes into all sorts of things, religion being one. If someone is going to believe strange things, I find it odd that they would be so hyper sensitive.

[DemPGH]

I just thought that HockeyDude's comments were not NEARLY outlandish enough to warrant picking up the Christian flag, planting it here, and declaring him the bad guy. But it's all relative - around me and my social circle the contents of what he said are just harmless thoughts (and so I try to hold way back on this forum). DC, though, I thought, was similarly emotional and direct - it was just a slightly agitated exchange, that's all.

[DemPGH]

I just thought that HockeyDude's comments were not NEARLY outlandish enough to warrant picking up the Christian flag, planting it here, and declaring him the bad guy.

Don't look at me.

Ha, I wasn't.

I just thought that HockeyDude's comments were not NEARLY outlandish enough to warrant picking up the Christian flag, planting it here, and declaring him the bad guy.

As a pagan, I don't even have a Christian flag to pick up. I just know how to spot twat atheists with ease after associating with them for so long.

As in a polytheist? Interesting. The irony of that is that we both would be convicted of witchcraft, heresy, blasphemy, and probably treason (none of which would have a very pretty end), and for really opposite reasons!

I really don't understand how putting a post in a thread about good comebacks or "burns" labels someone a "bad guy."

Perhaps if this was The Deluge that would be understandable...

No, it just rankled me a bit. The context is, "An atheist running his mouth got beat down - good, get him!" which really wasn't the case, but in any event, it's like when someone dumps something in here or the Deluge and says, "Look what THIS jerk said now" - a lot of it is, so what? Are some folks who do this dumping just really closeted, extremely young, or something else? That's all. Now there are some good things in the Irony Ore or Mine or whatever, yes.