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   DanielSan to All   
   Re: What kind of God..?   
   28 Jan 12 20:06:03   
   
   XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.religion.christian   
   XPost: aus.religion.christian   
   From: danielsan1977@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/28/2012 8:01 PM, felix_unger wrote:   
   > On 29-January-2012 2:43 PM, felix_unger wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 29-January-2012 2:22 PM, John Baker wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "felix" is a textbook example of why so many Usenet "agnostics" are so   
   >>> bloody damned annoying. They ride into alt.atheism with guns blazing,   
   >>> expecting to kick ass and take names, only to invariably have their   
   >>> own asses handed to them in short order. In spite of that, they remain   
   >>> so utterly convinced of the unassailable rightness of their own   
   >>> position that even after they've been disabused of their   
   >>> misconceptions regarding atheists and atheism, they still refuse to   
   >>> deviate from the script. Rather than admit their error and allow that   
   >>> the *true* atheist position is neither fallacious nor logically   
   >>> indefensible, they continue to attack a strawman and then sit back and   
   >>> smirk as though they've just presented the most devastatingly perfect   
   >>> argument the world has ever seen when in fact all they've done is   
   >>> showcase their own ignorance and dishonesty. They lie, insult and then   
   >>> lie some more, then whine about how mean, nasty and arrogant atheists   
   >>> are when we give them the spanking they deserve. They behave, in fact,   
   >>> exactly like the fundamentalist Christian trolls we all know and   
   >>> loathe.   
   >>>   
   >>> There's no point in arguing with them, because they know what you   
   >>> *really* believe better than you do. And they'll be the first ones to   
   >>> tell you that.   
   >>   
   >> no doubt you'll persist in your delusions such as these   
   >>   
   >>> To be fair, I'll allow that the majority of the regulars in   
   >>> alt.agnosticism   
   >> such as?   
   >>   
   >>> are probably not like the ones we see here in a.a.   
   >>> They likely don't troll other groups arrogantly attempting to impress   
   >>> the regulars there with their largely imaginary intellectual   
   >>> superiority, so we shouldn't judge them by felix's example.   
   >>   
   >> maybe I shouldn't judge atheists by dishonest ones like you then. but   
   >> then I haven't encountered any honest ones yet who will debate with   
   >> integrity and without hostility or personal attacks.   
   >>   
   >> now for the umpteenth time.. I have NOT posted ANY discussion threads   
   >> to alt.atheism. I have participated in existing threads, and answered   
   >> replies to me.   
   >   
   > point of clarification.. "I have participated in existing threads [in   
   > alt.agnosticism], and answered replies to me [in alt.agnosticism from   
   > alt.agnosticism].   
      
   Look.  It's really simple.  If you don't want replies from people   
   reading alt.atheism, STOP POSTING IN ALT.ATHEISM.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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