--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Vivian > When Mario Goveia said at least twice on Goanet > recently that, it is infested by atheists I > immediately thought of two things: a) Has Goanet > become a base for the Christian religion and ceased > to be secular? b) Was Goanet right to allow Mario > to blatantly say what he did as stated above? > > If it was OK for Mario to express his vitriol, then > perhaps he is being a wee bit less triumphant than > he could be! Surely, what we have seen on > Goanet is a major coup by the Christian Right in its > current Moral Rearmament American version. > Mario responds: > The dictionary defines "infest" as "to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner". Can anyone, even Cornel, deny that this is what we have seen recently on Goanet? > To be fair, the "perceived" swarm has been reduced by two since Aristo and Santosh have both publicly announced that they are not atheists. The rest of us were simply fooled by what they had written previously:-)) > Get used to it, Chris and Gilbert and Joe. Santosh is now not an atheist, says he never has been:-)) Go weep in your fenny, Kevin, Vivek, RKN, Cornel and Velho. Elisabeth, you do whatever as a regular church-going agnostic:-)) > I would use "infest" for Christians if they suddenly started swarming around Goanet in a troublesome manner, but Christians have been doing that on Goanet from its very inception, so what was the point in repeating that?:-)) In fact, if it will mollify Cornel, Christians have been swarming in a troublesome manner for 2006 years now. They obviously annoy you. They have been bugging me since I was born [Sorry, Mom, but facts are facts:-))] > Cornel is probably taking conspicuous and pretentious umbrage at my nuanced use of the language because of the alternative definition of "infest" which is, "to live in or on as a parasite." > I would hereby like to confirm that that was not the usage I intended. > Finally, for the record I am not an anti-atheist - never been one. >
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