I remember my first encounter with you, back when you were Slythe. I was almost brand new, and had opened a thread debating whether atheism is a religion. I remember how you came crashing in, announcing that if you were to encounter God, you would slay Him. What that had to do with the debate, we will never know. Yet somehow, you marshalled the resources to do the unreasonable, the rude, the childish, the inane.
I ran into you again from time to time, as Slythe. With practically every encounter, you were belligerent, intolerant, bombastic, and incredibly obtuse.
Fast forward. Now, you’re a moderator, and (at least ought to be) held to a higher standard of behavior. I know my complaint will go straight into the trash. I can understand that there is comaraderie among moderators, and that they will defend you. Because of your standing, however, the Pit is where I must take my complaint.
First, you allowed the wholesale hijack and slaughter of this thread that I started in your Forum, “In My Humble Opinion”. It was a thread about the Jesus Survivor spoiler that has been circulating on internet radio and various Survivor message boards.
Its Opening Post:
When the jackals descended and began to mutilate the thread, you didn’t raise a finger to stop it. No “Okay folks, let’s stick to the topic”, no “This is ridiculous, I’m moving it to MPSIMS.” Nothing. You just let it get chopped to pieces by ravenous thugs who tore through like denizens on a rampage.
I suspect you did this because you rather enjoyed it. They were, after all, attacking Jesus. Not the Jesus who was the topic, but the Jesus Who is my God. I wouldn’t think the motive was incompetence or sloth or dereliction, was it? But I let it slide, gave the pack the information from Jesus (the union writer), and forgot about it.
Now you’ve crashed this thread where the Pagans have opened one of the many “Ask Me” threads in Great Debates, nagging and taunting them there rather than bringing it to the Pit the way we non-moderators have to. Well, that’s that, and I have no control over it.
You, and people like you, are the ones who give atheism its common reputation as a hand-stabbing philosophy that is ethically bereft. You’re the reason people think atheists can’t be moral. You are your own worst enemy, and will lose your fight to stamp out ignorance because, frankly, people won’t listen to what assholes have to say.
May you find Love and peace, for your own sake and ours.