home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!bnrgate!bmerh85!bmers30!dgraham
- From: dgraham@bmers30.bnr.ca (Douglas Graham)
- Subject: Re: A point well missed ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.154903.10325@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1993Jan27.195335.17753@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com> <C1JuM7.6zB@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:49:03 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
- In article <C1JuM7.6zB@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner) writes:
- > Yes, you get a prize; you were both civl and rational - the only
- >response that was in fact. It seems odd that I never stated my
- >position on the central question, do I believe in the existence of
- >God, yet was attacked by all and sundry, what does it mean?
-
- It means that you're an obnoxious asshole, who introduced himself
- to this group in a way calculated to raise the hackles of anybody
- calling himself an atheist. You seem to be getting a little more
- civil now, but I certainly feel no need to justify myself to
- somebody who will probably revert to being an asshole at any
- time.
-
- >If atheists are veritable paragons of reason, the intellectual elite,
- >the most rational of people, why do they get so hot when someone challenges
- >their faith?
-
- Did you ever think that it might have something to with the way you
- ask the question?
- --
- Doug Graham dgraham@bnr.ca My opinions are my own.
-