On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 4:05:05 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Bruno -- he is very respectful of other people's opinions and always >> argues the ideas without resorting to name calling. >> > > Just yesterday Bruno called me a bigot, and it wasn't the first time. >
Even if he did, you called yourself a bigot yesterday more clearly: On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 6:46:48 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Only Fundamentalist christians, fundamentalist muslims and bigot >> atheists [...] >> > > You've called me a "bigot atheist" before so I asked myself if it was > true. Well,* a bigot is a **person who is intolerant toward those holding > different opinions than ones own*, so am I intolerant of religious people > in general? No, I may have contempt for those particular ideas but don't > want people who hold them killed or imprisoned or punished in any way, > *except > perhaps by being given a tongue lashing by me on the Everything List. * > This assumes validity of punishment, similar to Old Testament (which lends further support to "atheists' closeness radical Christians"), to establish some ultimate state of truth: you believe in your right to give "tongue lashings" or whatever to people holding different opinions. Apparently you are the authorized exception to the rule you state above. Sure, we can disagree more or less vehemently. But I don't feel this constant need to keep repeating my message and shove it into the list over and over, nor do I believe that punishment or constant shaming of others' beliefs will convert them. That seems to border on delusion because you're proud of your crusade, your achievements as a twelve year old, your unique ability to hijack acronyms while insulting, openly displaying blanket prejudice to whole religious groups, different theologies as well as theology as concept. I guess I deserve a tongue lashing now or we should change the meaning of bigot in dictionary. PGC On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 6:53:21 AM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
