I know I’m prone to bad editing but I gotta fix this. It should read “Thankfully, nobody bit, but don’t defend him. You asked an interesting question”
What’s jerkish about telling the story of Christmas? Isn’t this a board dedicated to fighting ignorance? And shouldn’t a story like that start in GD, since it would inevitably draw the wannabe C.S. Lewises of the Boards and end up getting moved to GD anyway? Oh, sure, it’s
This kind of shit is what gives Christianity a bad name: Christians loudly jamming their rituals down other peoples’ throats and then crying out that everyone else is being a big old meanie when they dare refute it. As Valteron said: bullshit, kiddies, bullshit.
Now, that doesn’t mean that Valteron’s OP is a particularly skillful refutation, or that it has a whole lot of absolute merit, but it started a reasonably interesting debate and it may fight some kid’s ignorance who happens to pop through the SDMB for the first time on the right day. If it’s trolling, it clearly hasn’t worked.
BTW, you didn’t seem to be too miffed when you posted the first response in that thread:
From whence come thine change of heart?
Thy.
Not really, no. It says that at the top of the page, but you shouldn’t believe everything you read, especially on the internet.
Amen to that! Look at Mangetout! His ignorance has not been reduced an iota!
I thought it was a rather nice argument against the “reason for the season” crap you hear every year around this time. Not so much against Christianity per se; but simply pointing out that plenty of non-Christians can celebrate Christmas without hypocrisy.
Furthermore, that plenty of professed Christians ARE celebrating a pagan holiday with pagan rituals makes “Jesus is the reason for the season” look like a pretty funny phrase. I guess I saw Valteron’s thread as a preemptive argument, which ‘witnessing’ is another word for, in some ways.
Not that he wasn’t preaching to the choir in this case.
Has so! He’s a little bit less ignorant now than he was a couple of years ago!
[sup]I keed, I keed…[/sup]
My very own Pitt Thread! My heart is bursting with happiness!
Since I am allegedly a troll and have frequently been called an attention hog, you could not have come up with a better Yultide present than an entire thread dedicated just to me.
You kids have made an old troll very happy. (sniff sniff, boo hoo!) This is my best Yuletide ever.
As Tiny Tim observed “Nobody bless us one and all”!
Great Debates is the designated place for “(if you feel you must) witnessing.” Nonbelief may not be a religion, but it is a religious position. Unless the SDMB is controlled by a particular religion, we can be open to witnessing by posters of any stripe. Any one of you can probably list a handful of sects you believe are poppycock ‘n’ tommyrot. If we are to be a pluralist community, we can’t go around calling a member a troll for standing alone in his religious stance.
Some of you have grumped on Valteron for being historically inaccurate and/or misreading the Bible. Even if that’s true, he shares those sins with some mainstream Christian groups.
Yes, I did.
Brad Pitt? Where? I’ve been meaning to tell him how much I liked him in Fight Club. He must have joined during the whole waterboarding thing. Cool!
You misspelled “all”.
I admit, my first impulse was to come back on this with a snarky remark, but that would simply reinforce your point in an oblique way.
Can I just comment that they do have narrower brushes for sale, ones that don’t make you look like Valteron.
I’m aware that those brushes are for sale. I don’t need them. All mainstream Christian groups are misreading the Bible. Period.
Bryan Ekers: I take it back. Personal insult is not the last resort of he who has no arguments. Correcting spelling is!
Do you know how often I could have corrected cases of improperely used “your/you’re” or “its/it’s” on these boards? But I would have to be awfully petty to do so.
Why do you assume that I would not cook for my guests? Are atheists bad cooks?
Never mind.
I didn’t correct your spelling. I ridiculed your spelling.
It’s not because you’re an atheist, it’s because you’re a prick.
Your opinion, your business. Rather obviously, I’m inclined to disagree. But rather than doing so “blind,” as it were, might I prevail upon you to open a GD thread detailing where you see various groups doing so?
Valteron trolling is not worthy of a thread. If Valteron ever does anything other than trolling, that would be worthy of a thread. (But frankly I wouldn’t worry about that possibility much.)