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In reply to the discussion: I prefer to be uncompromising than spineless... [View all]2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)75. LOL
That was the stretchiest stretch in the history of stretching.
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Actually, the first post is a criticism of behavior and beliefs, not bigotry...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#43
Look, I understand that your cognitive processes are hampered by a lack of exercise...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#106
I happen to think that the atheist POV is purposefully and extremely narrow-focused and
humblebum
Mar 2012
#118
Never said they were, and that narrow focus and narrow-mindedness is asking for evidence...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#132
It was very specific. You must be using your own definition for that word if you think otherwise.
cleanhippie
Mar 2012
#138
Assuming that to be true, and only assuming, it does not make your dichotomy any less silly.
rug
Mar 2012
#26
There aren't many people on this board who want to compromise when it comes to...
trotsky
Mar 2012
#3
No,you are taking a quote, that may or may not be accurate, out of context to reinforce...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#23
Why, exactly, am I expected to tolerate delusion and wilful ignorance disguised as "faith"?
AlbertCat
Mar 2012
#111
I tried searching for it, and only found it, not in exact words, here:
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#22
Not necessarily, I'm calling people's ignorant use of him as an authority on this...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#34
First off, its still hasn't had extensive testing yet,it doesn't "prove" anything...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#133
Actually, he's mostly wrong, its mostly predictible, mostly linear, and Einstenian...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#35
Also... we aren't talking about the same 'decoherence' at all. Not even sort of. nt
Joseph8th
Mar 2012
#85
Except,... that these particular mere matters of taste must also be taken as vitally important
AlbertCat
Mar 2012
#113
Compromise on what? Separation of Church and State, LGBT rights, Women's rights and health care?
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#29
Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant women's access to health care, BC and EC in particular, but also...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#38
There's a difference between accepting political reality and being accepting of the beliefs...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#45
I do not tolerate the intolerant, I do not kowtow to the foolish, if that makes me unreasonable...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#28
Years ago some of our family group (7 bedroom house, some family, some friends in residence)
pinto
Mar 2012
#48
So is it your point of view that only uncompromising Christians are the problem?
Leontius
Mar 2012
#66
Anyone who thinks that scientific scepticism is 'the propagand arm for materialist technocracy' is
LeftishBrit
Mar 2012
#136
Science I view as a mental tool to help discover the world, it therefore helps in development of...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#143
Another day another argument but if you want to give an opinion on what was actually being
Leontius
Mar 2012
#73
You said something. I chose to give an opinion on it. Don't like it? Tough.
2ndAmForComputers
Mar 2012
#74
You have no answer to what I said, so you complain that I talked about a post of yours
2ndAmForComputers
Mar 2012
#77
No you don't seem to understand what my post was about or have nothing to add to
Leontius
Mar 2012
#78
Yes, but the problem is not that they are Christians, but that they won't compromise.
Jim__
Mar 2012
#79
Put yourself down as willing to compromise on women's rights - because you're nothing but talk.
Jim__
Mar 2012
#99