It really isn't ganging up, Share, anymore than everyone laughing at the same joke at a comedy club, is ganging up, on the subject of that joke. Think about it. Yes, there is something that bothers you here, but you haven't got it yet.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Steve, I don't mind when people confront turq one on one. But I really don't like it when the piling on and ganging up happens. Something about that seems very unhealthy to me, mainly for the people doing it. From: "steve.sundur@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good article by someone with more patience for theists than I have... A good question Share. Here's the short answer. There is a time for compassion to be shown, and a time to address BS head on. I am bothered by the continual mis-perceptions Barry throws out here, and feel compelled to address them. Pretty much as simple as that. That, and the fact that I think he is mean person, with no self awareness in that regard. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Steve and Fleetwood, if you really think this way, then why not show some compassion? From: "fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 6:52 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good article by someone with more patience for theists than I have... My conclusion too, Steve. He sounds very disturbed, in the paragraph below. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote : or possibly that something is seriously broken in your life. I don't think I'd discount that possibility. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : One of the reasons I speak in such a derogatory way about God-believers here is that I figure after centuries of them putting down non-believers all the time (not to mention killing them, burning them at the stake, etc.) they should get a taste of their own medicine. That, and the fact that I really DO consider many God-believers pretty much as stupid as I say they are. :-) But every so often, it's probably good to present the point of view of a more balanced atheist who has more compassion for the idiots trying to shout him down than I have. Consider this my contribution to FFL in this respect...
