# "Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest..." \[badchad banning\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599 "2007-03-19T18:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/141 "2007-03-20T15:48:06Z")
It squicks me out. It embarrasses me for you. I know you can’t understand, but to me, it would be like praying around the fire for the King of the Smores. It’s very unconfortable. Liken it yourself to praying for Lucifer to come smite your Lord. That would squick you out right? It’s hard to explain, but it makes me that unconfortable. I mean, goosebumps kind of uncomfy. I must seem a heathen to you, but I am literally that disturbed when somebody prays around me. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/142 "2007-03-20T16:01:06Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] It squicks me out. It embarrasses me for you. I know you can’t understand, but to me, it would be like praying around the fire for the King of the Smores. It’s very unconfortable. Liken it yourself to praying for Lucifer to come smite your Lord. That would squick you out right? It’s hard to explain, but it makes me that unconfortable. I mean, goosebumps kind of uncomfy. I must seem a heathen to you, but I am literally that disturbed when somebody prays around me. [/QUOTE] Well, OK, but for me the nearest I can liken it to is that excellent short story _The Blast of the Book_, in which Father Brown picks up the cursed book without a moment’s hesitation or odd feeling. “You see, I am not superstitious.” [mode=evangelical zealot]You see, your uncomfortable feelings are clear evidence that Satan _doesn’t want you saved_! [/mode] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/143 "2007-03-20T16:12:23Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Well, OK, but for me the nearest I can liken it to is that excellent short story _The Blast of the Book_, in which Father Brown picks up the cursed book without a moment’s hesitation or odd feeling. “You see, I am not superstitious.” [mode=evangelical zealot]You see, your uncomfortable feelings are clear evidence that Satan _doesn’t want you saved_! [/mode] 😃 [/QUOTE] Perhaps they have great plans for me down yonder. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/144 "2007-03-20T16:16:58Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] Perhaps they have great plans for me down yonder. 😃 [/QUOTE] _The Screwtape Letters_ has some suggestions. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/145 "2007-03-20T16:22:17Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] It’s very unconfortable. Liken it yourself to praying for Lucifer to come smite your Lord. [/QUOTE] If someone asked me to do that, it wouldn’t squick me out - I just wouldn’t do it. If it was someone else _doing it_ (which is analogous to what we’re talking about), um, I wouldn’t really have anything to say on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/146 "2007-03-20T16:22:33Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] _The Screwtape Letters_ has some suggestions. 😃 [/QUOTE] A diabolical classic. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/147 "2007-03-20T16:25:54Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] **Sunrazor** , my lad, you’ve been whoooshed. [/QUOTE] The part I liked was where the person _defending_ you called you ham-fisted and lacking in diplomacy. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/148 "2007-03-20T16:30:16Z")
Well, I just hope that now the SDMB atheist wars can go back to being gentlemanly 19th-c battles with rules of engagement and all that again. New Testament Greek and Bishop Berkeley and Bertrand Russell and Kierkegaard are much more interesting to me than “cunt.” ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/149 "2007-03-20T16:30:22Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] I did not “take issue” with the “charge” so much as ask what the heck it meant. As to taking issue with all your other odd complaints: I was afraid that if I denied all of them (or any of them), I would have overtaxed your limited resources attempting to [del]invent[/del] provide evidence for your charges. Better to suffer your slings and arrows stoically, soldiering on without complaint, than to actually defend myself, causing your head to explode with overexertion. [/QUOTE] **tom** , I was kidding. Often my humor is so rarified as to be discernable only by me. At any rate, I had hoped that you would have remembered the many times I have defended you in threads like this, and recognized my jocularity, poor as it was. I did not mean any of those things I said, with the possible exception of ‘unidexter.’ ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/150 "2007-03-20T16:31:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] If someone asked me to do that, it wouldn’t squick me out - I just wouldn’t do it. If it was someone else _doing it_ (which is analogous to what we’re talking about), um, I wouldn’t really have anything to say on the matter. [/QUOTE] My point is, and you know it, I am not comfortable with religious people praying around me. Strangers across the net praying doesn’t bother me as such, but as I said, when they post they are praying for me, it “irks” me. I can’t make it any clearer than that. “irk” can be anything from mild irritation to full flaming bullshit, which I am not inclined to do now. I simply stated my point, and rather politely I think for the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/151 "2007-03-20T16:33:43Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] But I still can’t help but wonder why stalking itself is not officially jerkish because, clearly, it actually is. [/QUOTE] Yeahbut, if it stalks itself, who among us will complain? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/152 "2007-03-20T16:51:46Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] [… I did not mean any of those things I said, with the possible exception of ‘unidexter.’ [/QUOTE] from [“One leg Too Few”](http://mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/Lart/monty/oneleg.html) , mentioned upthread. > [@](#): > > Your right leg I like. I like your right leg. A lovely leg for the role. That’s what I said when I saw you come in. I said “A lovely leg for the role.” I’ve got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is - neither have you. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/153 "2007-03-20T16:55:15Z")
[QUOTE=capybara] Well, I just hope that now the SDMB atheist wars can go back to being gentlemanly 19th-c battles with rules of engagement and all that again. New Testament Greek and Bishop Berkeley and Bertrand Russell and Kierkegaard are much more interesting to me than “cunt.” [/QUOTE] On the other hand, speaking as a non-necrophiliac heterosexual male … ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/154 "2007-03-20T17:24:00Z")
[QUOTE=DMC] How does one prove the difference? [/QUOTE] Little clues, I think. Starting superfluous threads with that person’s [name in the title](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=163501). Opening [two concurrent](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=229339) [pit threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=226859) bitching about the exact same thing. Cranking the whole shtick [back up again](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=406408) as soon as you return from suspension. [Repeatedly](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=411956) [pitting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=411956) [the only mod](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=389464) you perceive to be an obstacle between you and your prey. Ignoring the admin who [told you years ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4353272&postcount=46) to knock it off. Defending [fellow trolls](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=401428). [Declaring unequivocally](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7907346&postcount=591) that one of your goals in life is to rob that particular person of his joy in posting here. Boasting that your tactics [are intentional](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7787274&postcount=39). Ignoring pleas from [ninety percent](http://toomanylinkstolist.com) of your fellow atheists to please just shut the fuck up. Granted, there may be no single thing to serve as proof, but taken all together, it’s at least a mite troublesome. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/155 "2007-03-20T18:20:25Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] **tom** , I was kidding. [/QUOTE] Which might be why, when **Sunrazor** defended me against your charges, I noted that he had been whooshed. This being the **Pit** , however, I felt compelled to provide an appropriate response to your savage attacks upon my person. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599/156 "2007-03-20T18:38:45Z")
Way way back when, it was noted that we normally don’t allow threads whose purpose is to slam former posters who cannot defend themselves. So, this thread was being left open if it was focused on the administrative process. This thread has a bit of that, but also seems to be a believer-vs-non-believer thread (which belongs in GD forum) and some other random miscellany. I think it’s gone on long enough. Since I’m the one who pulled the plug on **badchad** , I’m now pulling the plug on this one. (If the forum moderators disagree with me, they can certainly overrule me, this aint my turf.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flights-of-angels-sing-thee-to-thy-rest-badchad-banning/396599.md?page=7)