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In reply to the discussion: My Sweet Lord: An Atheist Meditation on the God that is Love [View all]Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)56. I'm talking about your original post
where you said this:
Friendly tip: clean up your own act before attacking us. We'd listen a lot better then.
That's the part that I refer to as attacky. The only place you use "we" in there is to distinguish yourself from that which you are saying is bad.
And you choose to complete ignore the point I was making about what atheists are doing is a reaction. If that were the case (and I don't know your views on that because you haven't answered), then your statement of "clean up your own act before attacking us" is the saying that those that are the victim need to respect the offender before the offender will show respect which they didn't do in the first place.
I get what you are saying, but you opened with a "self righteous snarl." That is what I'm reacting to: an attitude where you snarl and (albeit in a very passive aggressive nicey sounding way) indict those that snarl.
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I admire your talent to ask unanswerable questions. Truth to tell, I envy it.
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#46
Rug's lifetime error: failing to see Atheist Anger is resolved by SECULAR, not religious, liberalism
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#6
Does Rug's '60's, leftish/liberal Christianity or religiosity, still work? For Atheists?
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#16
I am not totally opposed to liberal religionists. But are their old arguments still effective?
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#19
"Wanting to make this a war is counter-productive to the causes that democrats share and support."
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#33
The video you post is classic 60's: Band Aid or whoever, singing a Beatles song by George Harrison
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#20
Your first is VERY retro. You can see the same thing in 1976. The song is Beatles; 1969-70.
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#23
Kennedy was the archetypal Liberal; but liberalism was revolutionary in his own era.
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#25
So, you support the archetype that prompted the liberal movement of the 60's an 70's,
cbayer
Feb 2014
#26
My point is that classic 60's persons, liberals, think of themselves as timelessly advanced; but ...
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#28
What you say seems about right. Except I see modern Atheists as the true extension of that
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#30
I don't think the problem with intolerance of atheists come from the religious left.
cbayer
Feb 2014
#32
Doesn't look to me, a latecomer to this thread, that liberals started the bickering.
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#39
See a doctor for your paranoia. They have meds that can do wonders these days.
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#57
Knowing we can question certainty comforts me. Perverse little snot that I am.
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#43
Ummm.... 'scuse me, please? When did anyone fall under the obligation to please or placate you?
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#38
I think I might be an Agnostic. We don't know for sure, nor do we wish or care to know.
libdem4life
Feb 2014
#31
Me too; with a strong dose of animism thrown in. I used to astro-trip stone cold sober,
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#35
I have had the privilege of sitting in the presence of a number of Masters. Living in LA/SF
libdem4life
Feb 2014
#36
Although I have a special way with horses and feel closer communion with them than with many
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#40
That's a great story. Zen was my way of learning to let go. Rather bleak, I must admit, but
libdem4life
Feb 2014
#45
Seems we are made up of some pretty complex materials which doesn't always fit into a neat
libdem4life
Feb 2014
#55