Miguel Braganza wrote on Goanet: > OXYMORON is "putting together words which seem to contradict each > other" according to the OXFORD dictionary. "Bitter-sweet" is one > example. I do not know if "God Sucks" qualifies as an oxymoron.
Mario responds: If you taste some of my cuisine you will realize that bitter-sweet may not be an oxymoron:-)) Actually, while bitter-sweet is an oxymoron in a narrow context, it is also a figure of speech to describe experiencing two opposite emotions at the same time, which is fairly commonplace. Samir's "God sucks" was not an oxymoron simply a gratuitous, moronic and vicious insult with no mitigating factors, and Sandeep's "presumption" in trying to defend this indefensible insult confusing presumption with logic is like putting lipstick on a pig and optimistically entering it in a beauty pageant. To add insult to injury, Samir and Sandeep then went on to claim tolerance as an atheist trait, and blame intolerance, death and destruction in the world on religion whereas some of the worst evildoers in history have been atheists, which they conveniently failed to mention until reminded. Besides, initiating and making excuses for the concept of "God sucks" is itself an example of intolerance. Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:11:10 +0530 From: "Sandeep Heble" <[email protected]> > Like the Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Weinberg who wrote and I > quote: "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you > would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil > things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Mario responds: All this quote proves is that physicists suck when they comment in fields other than their own, and that gullible Goanetters can display their own bias and ignorance when they quote a physicist outside his field as if he is an expert in everything. The proof of Weinberg's delusional and ignorant quote outside his expertise as a physicist lies in the evidence, that some of the most evil humans in history have been atheists. Even though he is a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Weinberg deliberately overlooked this evidence in citing his pre-conceived atheist agenda.
