XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.religion.christian   
   XPost: aus.religion.christian   
   From: me@nothere.com   
      
   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].   
      
   >   
   > your claim of trolling is nothing but an invention of your warped   
   > imagination.   
   >   
   >> Maybe they don't like him any more than we do.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Have a nice day!   
   >   
   >   
      
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