Posted by Gremlin [12.211.200.127 - 12-211-200-127.client.attbi.com] on 15 June 2003 at 23.37.39 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: I have a compliment to pay to the people that post on this site. posted by John Doh on 15 June 2003 at 03.53.50 ZuluTime:

I'm probably putting the singleblind at risk by admitting this, but I don't actually care about the christians.
     I expose their idiocy primarily because it's entertaining. Everyone has a purpose, even if it's only target practise. It's not about hatred; it's about vexation.
     There are, of course, massive problems with religion. War, persecution, intolerance, torture, death, famine, fraud, molestation, racism, and Stryper. That's not really my issue.
     Religion also gets in the way of progress. The latest rewrite of a four-thousand-year-old novel still serves as a 'reason' to rebel against advances. The bible, in its various forms, contains the creation of matter/energy, flat planets, avian bats, fixed-point values of pi, dragons, unicorns, herbivorous lions, global floods, first-century Nazarines, and other such disproved myths. The biblicists, realising that the sciences have disproved their novel, view the sciences as fallible, living evil; so they attempt to prevent the useful advances in technology...using mostly computers, satellites, and other devices declared impossible by their silly little book. That's more of an issue, but it's still not a big deal, to me.
     What bugs me is the fucking libel. What bugs me is these feckless morons claiming that anything I might do or think is, in fact, the action of a deity. We know that they suck at what they attempt to do; if their attempts are, in fact, the attempts of a deity, then that deity sucks too. But to accuse me of plagiarising the same deity which made all the laughable mistakes in the bible is the ultimate character defamation. I write novels; I don't get them from deities. I write websites; I don't get them from deities. I'm not the one playing god here; I'm the one succeeding. Accusing me of being the creation of the same moron who reportedly flooded a planet and still failed to eradicate Evil...well, let's see how that works....
     According to LectLaw.com, libel is defined as:

Published material meeting three conditions: the material is defamatory either on its face or indirectly; the defamatory statement is about someone who is identifiable to one or more persons; and the material must be distributed to someone other than the offended party; i.e. published; distinguished from slander.

So. Let's break this down.