Just in case you’d ever like to expand your repartee badchad, here’s a link of the necessary encouragement. And it also might help to (suggest? laughably reinforce? make obviously null your idiotic, repetitive laudings of your own behavior?), um, define your so-called honesty.
Perhaps if you attempt a search, it’s possible to find maybe even THREE! Then at least Google might be your friend.
::: really wishing Fenris could weigh in on his Chowder and Marching Society :::
P.S. Before it’s back-handedly thrown at me, I’m not a Christian, so it doesn’t matter if I am behaving in the appropriate manner or not. Of course, I doubt that’d stop you anyway. Therefore I’ll anxiously await The Truth as set forth by bc and the apostles. Carry on. Your vitriol is waiting, along with your cute little co-horts who can’t ever not assuage your image and decry any voicing of your troll status. Because, no you are definitely not that type. Also, as we all know but choose to ignore, you are erudite, intelligent and witty.
Thus is spoken. Let it be.
/no really that isn’t sarcasm… nu-uh, no sir!!.. more, more! ::: clap clap clap :::
They should leave the thread, you willfully dense dipshit, not the SDMB. They have no business here. “I don’t like badchad.” That’s fine, but it contributes nothing. I don’t like plenty of things that I don’t waste people’s time ranting about unless I actually have something worth reading. Who gives a fuck what you like and don’t like?
I like badchad. Am I making a contribution if I post threads saying just that every so often? No/ Well, that’s why I don’t do that.
If you post a comment saying that he is intelligent and witty, that’s a contribution. If I say he is rude and condescending, that’s just posting to say I don’t like him. You need to get out more. There’s a great big beautiful world out there beyond the borders of Lizard Land.
How about you just don’t read my posts, since the odds of your censure meaning a fat flying fiddler’s fuck to me are about as good the odds of you making the rules around here.
Why should they leave the thread? I will try again, it is a public message board, just because you don’t like what they say you don’t get to decide that they can’t say it.
As someone once said, who gives a fuck what you like and don’t like?
I really have to question the atheist credentials of someone who is as pathologically obssessed with God as badchad and pseudotron ruber ruber. Medieval monks who spent their whole lives copying out the Bible by hand didn’t spend as much time thinking about God as these guys do. Real atheists don’t spend this much time arguing about a guy they don’t think exists in the first place. Aside from the occasional poster with a genuine scholarly interest in religion as a cultural artifact (such as Diogenese the Cynic), the sort of atheist you’re going to find frequenting theology threads is the sort of poor, deluded loser who thinks that if he yells loudly enough at God, it will make up for him not getting hugged enough as a child. What sucks is, since us well adjusted atheists usually have better things to do than haggle over theology, and since there’s really not much call to bring up our lack of religion in other contexts, these fruit loops end up being misconstrued as representative of atheists in general by those who don’t know any better.
I guess what I’m saying is, please remember we’re not all like these guys. They’re the Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson of non-belief: loudmouthed assholes that aren’t really that representative of their demographic.
Out of curiosity, I clicked on his name and picked “show all posts by…” and then clicked on last page.
I don’t agree with **Bricker’s ** politics a whole lot, but he contributes to CS as a valuable, if sparse poster. I don’t agree with **lissener ** in CS, but tend to side with him in GD and the Pit. **BC ** is a pony and doesn’t contribute anything but another flogging of the proverbial dead horse. He’s not gonna convince any fundies, sophomoric logic or not, and he’s embarrasing the non religeous posters, because this is just the way the theists want us to be perceived.
Thats pretty funny. I’ve made the Falwell /Swaggart observation about **Der Trihs ** a dozen times or so. After a couple of discussions with BC I consider them close cousins. Atheist fundamentalists.
It’s obvious to me that they are the exception to the rule. I’ve enjoyed my discussions with atheists here and learned a bunch to boot.
Yeah! All us atheists should just shut our fucking filthy mouths, forever.
Who’s with me?
Pseudotriton, I’m not criticizing you because you’re a filthy fucking atheist, you dope. I’m criticizing you because you’re being an idiot with a martyr complex. A big bad authority figure told you you’re an idiot, and you’re peeing your pants with self-righteous indignation.
I see nothing strange about Evangelical Atheism. If guys like badchad and DtC believe that billions of religious people the world over have been duped into religion, then I can see why they would want to convince those people that they’ve been duped. And (at least where Christianity is concerned) they would have to use the Bible to make their arguments. So, while I disagree with them, I understand where they’re coming from and maintain that they should be allowed to make their arguments.
I am a Christian, and I understand that many people are not. I understand that reasonable people can believe that my religion is a complete crock of shit. That’s fine. I believe that they’re wrong, and they believe that I am wrong. And so we can debate that, and maybe we’ll both learn something. Failing that, maybe we’ll be forced to examine why we believe the things we believe, which is a good thing in my eyes. A militant atheist with extensive biblical knowledge can make for a great sparring partner and force me to work harder to understand the nature of belief, God, and life. And when people are thinking about Big Ideas ™, they grow intellectually. So someone with badchad’s knowledge debating some of the religious members of the SDMB (particularly those with more knowledge than I have) could be incredibly enlightening for all.
Mind you, that doesn’t give badchad any excuse to generally behave like a dick. You can make the arguments that he makes and still be a reasonable person. In fact, many on this board do just that. badchad would rather just insult posters, call them liars, and generally act like a troll. Having been on the receiving end of some of his trollishness, I stand by what I said upthread.
Good summary. I enjoy debating theology myself once in awhile, but when we atheists do that, we have to take as an assumption that God does exist, or that there is some basis for the theological question. Same with threads about abortion. There are some people who honestly believe in souls and who, in good faith (pardon the pun), argue the pro-life side. They start with different assumptions that I do, and I know you’re not going to get anywhere by saying their assumptions are garbage.
No argument with most of your post, except that I wouldn’t call Diogenes an evangelical atheist. I’ve never seen him argue that someone should not believe in God, although he has challenged certain specific beliefs and interpretations within a religion.
Agreed. I was originally going to write one thing, changed my mind, and somehow Diogenes’ name slipped through the rewrite crack. My entire post was intended to be about badchad exclusively. My bad.
I’m going to step into the fray and second that. The only time I got crossways with him was on a clear violation of SDMB protocol and he was right to do so. I’m quite certain I’ve stepped on Tom’s toes more than once with my viewpoints, but he has never jackbooted me for that.
This comment is a textbook example of a straw man. All that Contrapuntal said was that badchad’s approach was rude, condescending and unproductive. I don’t see a total gagging order as implicit in that.
