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Posted by Gremlin [12.211.200.127 - 12-211-200-127.client.attbi.com] on 12 June 2003 at 18.46.40 ZuluTime:
In Reply to: Scotsmanmatt goes fully lemming.... posted by Hunter on 12 June 2003 at 17.44.38 ZuluTime:
Not the scotsmantroll part. That was never a secret. Or, at least, not a very good one.
He's been doing this for years, originally as mattson_uk. He claims to be a rational apologist [whatever that might be] and then launches into infantile tirades amounting to how unfair it is that no one cares about or believes in his bogeymen. Then, as soon as everyone's convinced that he's a brainless troll, he calms down a bit, claims to be rational, rationally refuses to concede that he's full of shit, and evades into a new topic while fully expecting everyone either to agree that he won the debate he just fled, or prove that he didn't--naturally, anything resembling that proof is instantly denied and used to show that his opposition has no concept of debate, logic, or christianity.
The shorthand: unless you're an emotionally retarded catholic, you're a sophist whom scotsmantroll gets to overlook because he's so self-impressively rational and informed.
He's an idiot.
The interesting thing was this:
curious_for_2004 : I JUST DON'T UNDERTSAND HOW YOU CAN TAKE IT SO LIGHTLY EVEN IF YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT A GOD SUCH AS THE ONE I SERVE
Anagrammes and CapsLocks notwithstanding, this is perfect. How could anyone take a baseless, unsupported, unfounded assertion so lightly, even if one has never heard of it before.
This is why the religion is dying out. They've become lazy. It's assumed that everyone on the planet has heard enough about these deities to assume that they must exist. It's like Jim Cameron's claim that 'by the year two thousand, everyone on the planet will have seen [Titanic']; I know people who, on hearing that, intentionally refused to see it during the twentieth century, if at all. Just to disprove the hypothesis.
The same thing is happening here. The christians are assuming that their assertions are ubiquitous enough [my adjective, of course; theirs would be big] that the planet in general must be aware of them. Christianity is becoming Microsoft: total saturation of an unstable system containing ninety percent conflicting bloatware.
Christians can't understand how anyone could hear about these deities and disregard them as nothing more than shabby myths.
How indeed....
--Gremlin