# This act of agnostic teenage rebellion was not my idea... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-act-of-agnostic-teenage-rebellion-was-not-my-idea/488041 "2009-03-02T18:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-act-of-agnostic-teenage-rebellion-was-not-my-idea/488041/101 "2009-03-06T18:29:54Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Hello, and way to completely miss the point, **Homebrew** , as has repeatedly happened since about the first time you ever got athwart my hawse. Discussion of Judges 1:19 is meaningful only against a background in which the other events in the OT are assumed to be as true as the verse under discussion. Au contraire. The point of my post was to respond to your comment > [@](#): > > But when you selectively pick a verse from the Bible and tailor your interpretation of it simply in order to declare brattily “See? God’s not so great after all!”, then don’t be over-surprised when you piss off the people you were trying to piss off, and really don’t try to pretend that’s not what you were doing. It’s that whole rational clear thinking thing. Her interpretation is just as rational as yours; but you chose to label hers as bratty. Yours is simple apologetics but no more rational than hers. In fact I’d assert that hers is more rational since it implies that God doesn’t really exist, which is consistent with the observed universe and actual historical record, as I pointed out in the first part of my response. Although **Miller** ’s last two posts make the point much better than I do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-act-of-agnostic-teenage-rebellion-was-not-my-idea/488041.md?page=5)