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Re: One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Tue, 9 Jul 2002 03:20:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > I just found it interesting that RM didn't list them, that's all.
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> I just wanted to see what it felt like to make bald assertions like the
> troll, John.
This wasn't even your baldest assertion-- it was your characterization of
Christianity as a group of homicidal innocent butcherers.
Plus, I didn't want to go all "scoolboy"
"Schoolboy" was a word play on Dave's last name-- I'm not sure what *you* mean
by "scoolboy" (sic)
on you since I know
> you value your ignorance so much. DOG forbid you should learn anything,
> including the error of your ways.
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> FWIW, I am not an atheist.
What *are* you then?
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> I think I have realized why people respond to you -- you're so shockingly
> bigoted,
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means...
ignorant,
Ad hominem.
bible-thumping,
Please cite *any* time I have utilized the Bible in this manner or even
*mentioned* the Bible.
and politically myopic
Please. And how would you describe *your* politics?
that I think
> people sort of don't believe it and want to reason with you instead. I have
> decided the opposite -- that you REALLY are as shockingly bigoted, ignorant,
> bible-thumping, and politically myopic as you appear to be. Quite sad,
> really...
I think it's that I don't believe what you know to be true, and *therefore* I
am all of these such things. If only I believed as *you* do, I'd be okay.
Why, I'd see the "light". But I don't, and that's quite sad really.
And so you wrap up a little ad hominem attack for me to sum it all up in a
rueful conclusion.
Whatever.
-John
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| John... Please, PLEASE fix your line wrapping messes when you post. Either fix them by hand or get a better posting tool. Here is an example - start - that I think (...) - end - See that first line? It should have a ">" in front of it just like the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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