I disagree. It’s unacceptable from anybody, regardless of race, color, creed or absence thereof, etc.
But I think that was sort of your point!
I disagree. It’s unacceptable from anybody, regardless of race, color, creed or absence thereof, etc.
But I think that was sort of your point!
The guy is acting just like the fundies he wants to skewer. Skeptics are supposed to be empirical and objective not agenda-driven. As soon as a skeptic stops being open to factual correction he has abandoned all empirical or scientific pretense and simply become an sniping asshole.
His excuse for not wanting to post UnoMondo’s correction is kind of lame considering that all he had to do was remove an erroneous criticism. He didn’t have to explain it.
I’m sure he probably gets a lot of complaints from fundies all the time complaining about his annotations and he may have simply dismissed Uno without really considering his criticism at all. With questions of translation and Greek nuances and idioms, though, he really should be sure of himself before he spouts off on his website. That is what a skeptic is supposed to do, after all…and it isn’t like the Bible isn’t vulnerable enough to comprehensive criticism that it’s necessary to resort to uninformed cheap shots just to up the “gotcha” count.
Did you keep your correspondence? I’m thinking of putting up my debunking page again, and it would be nice to be able to put up evidence that SAB is not reliable and that its maintainer is not honest.
Euge, UnoMondo. If he farkled something as trivial as modes of address in koine, I can’t imagine that he didn’t fill this bible with other such distortions.
I am tempted to take a long look at it, myself. I tend to get really exercised by things like this.
Chuckle… this reminded me of the part in Crime and Punishment that talks about how people in 19th century Russia were afraid to piss off students and intellectuals, because they would then write an angry magazine article ranting about the person who pissed them off. The Pit, a century before the Internet!
Now I remember what reminded me of it- the police detective makes a comment about how fun it is to get exercised over things.
Well, I value being anonymous. If you could put it up without my name and e-mail address, I’d be happy to provide the e-mails.
UnuMondo
Of course. While it’s a little unconventional, the fact is that if, hypothetically, your email weren’t real, then the guy from the SAB could defend himself by just providing a rebuttal to your argument.
Forward the emails to linus42@angelfire.com. Thanks!
Ben, your ‘www’ link ends in a 404. Where is your site? Curious, thanks.