HelenM

Hi GeoTheo,

I'm glad you're staying, if that's what you want to do.

Helen

HelenM

You could always PM Daggah and ask him to repeat privately for you whatever he said that was deleted. If you really want to know.

Deletions are not done because the recipient is assumed to be hypersensitive and not able to handle them, but because they broke a rule of the board. Whether you could have handled that comment is not relevant to how moderators decide whether it is appropriate or not.

Helen

yguy

I'm aware that Christ was a Jew, not a Christian. The point is, there were certain things He would die rather than disbelieve.

If you see Christianity as just another ideology, that might be relevant, but it's not. A real Christian (I suspect there are maybe 10,000 total in this country, and I'm not one of them) losing his faith would be like you being deconverted from being human.

Wow. Waddya gonna do, exclamation point me to death?

Since you appear to be aware of some problem I have that I don't know about, how about you telling me?

yguy

It doesn't matter. I just find it incongruous that a board full of hellbound, blaspheming infidels is run like a parochial school.

livius drusus

Just because we utter blasphemies on our merry way to hell doesn't mean we shouldn't observe the basic courtesies of social interaction. After all, as far as we're concerned, the trip is all there is. Who wouldn't pick the Caterbury Tales method over the soccer team in the Andes one?

Gurdur

No, no, no, Ojuice has a far worse burden.
Can you imagine all the necessities implied in worshipping Roman gods ?
Amphitheatres running with blood ?
Bulls being sacrificed in underground cellers ?

The disbelief of atheists is not Ojuice's greatest enemy, on the contrary it is the Public Health Department.

Philosoft

What does this mean? Are there 10,000 people in the US who have spiritual access to The Truth™? Ten thousand people who are hopelessly deluded? None of the above?

yguy

What do you care?

girlwriter

yguy
I don't want to speak for anyone, but I think the point is this: You seemed to have pulled that 10,000 'real' Christians thing out of your hat. Where the heck do you get that number, anyway? Seems to me you just decided based on your own subjective, personal experience and opinions what a 'real' Chritsian should be, and extapolated a guess as to how many might exist. Come on, do you really believe you can back that statement with anything resembling evidence? It's a WAG based on an extrapolation based on a belief.

People are questioning it because you presented it as an argument in defense of your statement that the deconversions that have happened on this board are illegitimate. It is a very weak argument at best.

So why do theists so frequently attempt to use logic to supporrt their beliefs anyway? I mean, it's either about faith, wich by definition defies logic, or it's about logic, in which case faith has no place in the discussion. You can't have it both ways.

Oh, and BTW,
So what you're basicly saying is that the hellbound, blaspheming infidels are behaving in a way that is incongruous with your stereotypes by behaving in an orderly, civilized manner? I think that should tell you it's time to make an adjustment in your schemata of infidels.

GeoTheo

Thanks Helen!