Congratulations on finding the strawman needed to make this preposterous thread work, Glyn. Certainly your revelations will be welcomed by any Christians whose beliefs don't ultimately rest on faith (and there are many).
Your congratulations are accepted.
even though no straw man was raised, just an example given. I don't think you correctly understand the straw man gambit.
Where's this tactic cropped up before, plucking a choice quote in order to pad one's ego?
I can't begin to guess which particular example you had in mind. I expect it is a regularly used ploy.
AFAIK Glyn, no one else here has assumed a monopoly on truth and pushed it on you (or
Truth, as of the kind I assume Brokensickle and Christians sometimes refer, when he attempted to convey the spiritual location of someone willing to walk into a lion's den coated with tomato sauce, if only to get in a few words before they're devoured).
I don't see what point you are trying to score here. Nobody is claiming a monopoly of truth, merely mortals here on WAB trying to seek it.
You may think it all stems from a sandcastle in the sky that can be brought down with a few historical corrections.
You've stumped me there, Sunshine.
I don't know what you are talking about, or what analogy you've misquoted.
However I find it hard to believe that in the last 67 years you haven't discovered religious persons whose beliefs, if not their entire livelihoods and sanity, rests ultimately in their spirit.
I was once a religious person, but through my studies of things like the Knights Templar, and having an interest in philosophy and science, listening to interesting conversations etc I began to query what I had been led to believe by my religion. ( C of E ) The truth came to me only slowly, and I was outraged when I realised that I had been lied to. I then delved deeper. The deeper I delved the more errors and faults I found. The study of Atheism was especially helpful to me. The important thing is to keep an open mind, and truth comes from different quarters. I learned not to pooh-pooh any source outright, but at least read it and reflect on it.
If you'd care to comment, the original topic was about using discretion when exercising free speech, particularly when speaking critically about another religion. I think most would agree that while one shouldn't suffer for this exercise, a healthy dose of humility is both wise and pragmatic when the topic is religion.
Can't remember how the thread started, but it has been made a thread with its own subject now.
You know, I've always wondered why your words are the largest on the board. I guess I passed it off as a running joke, poor vision maybe. Now I realize its because of their supreme importance and wisdom of their speaker.
Quite right. It could be through having an enormous ego. It could be a form of compensation for only having 8 letters in my entire name. Or it might be just that I like Garamond in this weight and colour. And it might be that I do it because I can. You are spoiled for choices here.
But you can save your spluge for a choir that'll eat it.
The Readers Digest pays for examples of this sort of thing in "Towards more colourful speech". The teeny-weeny snag here is that it has to mean something. Never mind, keep trying.
I'm not going to chop your head off, but its not polite to mentally masturbate in public. Please stop it.