Reply #16: My definition of acting like a bastard:

[Selwynn]

is posting this in a Religion and Theology forum:


...Any number of us don't give two shits about Jesus as a divine entity and I would suggest that you keep your PERSONAL relationship with him to yourself. We're free to call him a fraud and you a fool on the basis of OUR personal beliefs, not to mention scholarship.

Otherwise, it quite certainly IS a matter of ramming it down people's throats.

If you want a thread on faith, start one. Don't ambush people just because they live free and independent of your magic prophet. I consider that sort of "relationship" to be a behavioral disorder, akin to young children with imaginary playmates.

...You flail about in this arena because you can't reconcile your idiot Jesus who performs magic tricks raising the dead, etc. with the fact that many people on DU and elsewhere accept the rigors of adult life without the imaginary playmate.

My points have been pointed, but you haven't refuted any of them.

You've just come back to "faith." That's your construction. Examine my original response to your original post. You will find nothing in it that is hostile or "faith-based."

You encountered people here who disagree with you and you haven't been able to persuade them, except to wobble around in the bubblebath of your own private faith.

If you want to have respectful, decent, kind discussions about religion in a religion forum but are a non-believer - welcome! I love that kind of non-believer. He/she is the kind of non-believer who makes me think perhaps I am indeed leaning on a crutch and perhaps he/she is stronger than I! I've *never* been ashamed to think about that possibility. I *could* in fact be weaker than my non-believing brother - however I know what I need in my life, and I know that if faith is a crutch, then I am a man that needs a crutch, and that doesn't bother me one bit. But I love to share experiences and thoughts with such people. My best friend is a non-believer (I say "non-believer" because he doesn't really consider himself an atheist but an agnostic.)

However, If you want to come here to mock, belittle, harass, or take a combative, agressive, anger-filled, cantacorous divsive tone - get lost. You contibute nothing of value, you bring nothing informative or persuasvie. You kill joy, and crush happy, healthy dialoge. I have nothing but disgust and contempt for that.