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Atheists & Agnostics

saras

(6,670 posts)

9. Namecalling is stupid. It validates the other side's namecalling, and they're better at it.

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Thu May 3, 2012, 11:43 PM

May 2012

If you fight with reason (easy, right? that's what you're fighting for?), they don't have much to fight back with, and the dispute becomes one over territory.

Because I'm going to continue my daily practice of believing six impossible things before breakfast.

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Say theology is stupid, get called a bigot. [View all] Odin2005 May 2012 OP

But that's only Bad Theology! Good Theology is A-OK! onager May 2012 #1

nicely done. darkstar3 May 2012 #2

Theology Ron Obvious May 2012 #3

Some of our best and most accurate ancient dates come from astrologers. dimbear May 2012 #4

Fair enough Ron Obvious May 2012 #7

Chemistry...but only sort of laconicsax May 2012 #10

My usual weird and irrelevant trivia... onager May 2012 #12

Probably nothing to do with the general burning of scientific texts under Theodosius. dimbear May 2012 #13

What happened to the observatories? Let's ask Hypatia... oh, wait. nt Act_of_Reparation May 2012 #16

In all fairness a decent theologian has to be at least ostensibly well-educated Act_of_Reparation May 2012 #5

While this may get hidden, this image speaks to that contingent. laconicsax May 2012 #6

Oh piffle, everyone knows the rainbow is supposed to be coming from the unicorn's butt.. Fumesucker May 2012 #14

Don't forget his majik ability to get even ugly people laid! BiggJawn May 2012 #18

Theology Ron Obvious May 2012 #8

Actually theologists education may have been extended intaglio May 2012 #11

Namecalling is stupid. It validates the other side's namecalling, and they're better at it. saras May 2012 #9

Everyone knows that bigotry is intolerance of specific academic fields. n/t laconicsax May 2012 #15

Apparently the theologist does not know the definintion of bigot..nt and-justice-for-all May 2012 #17

Yeah, I got called a bigot the other day. BiggJawn May 2012 #19