On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 1:31:05 PM UTC, PGC wrote: > > > > 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 ac..... >
you feel the need about once per entanglement with Mr. Clark. Is that fair? (just tickling my little darlin') ... -- 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.
