Sorry, I’m a little unclear on this whole vampirism thing - I’d really appreciate some facts.
And what good is a religious system that doesn’t influence how you speak or act? Sound like a rather cheap system of rewarding yourself with warm fuzzies about your cosmic significance without imposing any inconvenient standards in return. That’s one reason why I don’t believe in the tooth fairy - it’s just too childish to bother with.
Eh, I can definitely say you’re falling back on res ispsa loquitur and guess that you find it easier than responding to Dio with a counter-argument. I don’t blame you, mind - I myself find it easier to loftily ignore a challenge than get my ass kicked, and I speak as one who disagrees with Dio on maybe 80% of meaningful topics.
I’d say that the only thing a religious belief has to do is be correct. Letting it influence your actions can wait until you get that first step right.
So you don’t know what it is you’re deriding but you’ll do it anyway? Hmmmm…
What’s to argue with? That there are bigger atheists around than Dio? That he doesn’t mean what he’s saying? That the rules deserve to be broken in the case of paedophiles? He didn’t present any arguments, he just made statements.
You think Dio post constituted kicking my ass? How so?
Oh, OK. So it’s not about people who actually believe that they don’t show up in a mirror, spontaneously combust in sunlight, are burned by holy water and recoil from crosses, it’s just a “we’re incredibly special” club. Nothing unusual about that on teh intarwebs, and it’s consistent with your username at least.
Well, deride in a fairly limited sort of way until I know what it is we’re talking about. Further derision may be possible as future evidence becomes available. It may include pointing and laughing.
Yep, so what you do is, you make counter-statements, and you see where you end up after a few exchanges. Or else you say oh-so-sarcastically “Oh well, if Dio agrees, you must be right” as though you’d already won the argument.
No, I think he would kick your ass if you attempted to engage him in argument, and you may be smart enough to realize this.
Read what I said - want to hurt, no problem. Advocate hurting/actually doing it, not so good. Leave that to the justice system. Advocate hurting others whilst wearing very visibly on your sleeve association with a religion that (in its own schizoid way) proclaims to be a religion of forgiveness and a path of redemption? Even less good.
Why is this so difficult for people to understand?
Malacandra - maybe I don’t want to trade statements with people because I don’t think that constitutes an argument. By all means keep claiming that I’m afraid to debate with Dio, or that I’m incapable of doing so/otherwise generally intellectually inferior. And by all means, point and laugh all you wish.
Oh, and Grumman, would you care to tell us all which is the right religion as you seem to think you know? (I’m assuming you think mine isn’t.)
I’ll admit I’m no expert on the teachings of Christ, but it would surprise me if the man who taught his followers to turn the other cheek would support wanting to hurt anybody.
Not that I would expect any human to not have those thoughts, but it’s most certainly unchristian.
Unless of course there’s some quote from Christ supporting that that I’m unaware of, which is quite possible. I didn’t know about him wanting to put disobedient children to death until recently.
Nobody ever tells the rest of the story. All the people with shamed faces set down their stones, except for one old woman who hurled a half kilogram of rock at the woman’s head, killing her instantly.
Jesus turned to the woman and said “Mom, I was trying to make a point.”
I think I’m agreeing with you, that if Christians think it’s OK to kill or at least completely shun pedeophiles, why not dictators & cat lovers? And I add that it is possible that pedeophiles, dictators and cat lovers can reform and conform, which I’d think that Christians would want to work towards.
OTOH, I don’t really believe any of that about Christians, hence the </sacrasm>
