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I think the reason this happens is that Jim and other
spiritual/religious types don't realise their beliefs are emotional
rather than logical and insult any contrarians in an accordingly
similar way to how they feel they've been slighted.
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On 10/21/2014 3:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
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Exactly. They are OFFENDED that someone like myself or you has
overcome the Fear Of God that society tried to imprint us with, and
they haven't. They're still terrified that if they express doubt of
any kind, their imaginary friend God will smite them. Can't risk that.
And they're more than a little pissed of that God has *not* smitten
us, so they have to try to make up for him being a slacker and try to
smite us themselves. :-)
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/Straw man argument. For those unfamiliar with the term, a straw man is
a common type of argument that someone brings out to intentionally
misrepresent the original topic of the argument. //
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//It's like when two people are debating something and one guy is losing
the argument big time, so he tries to change the subject. The logic of
this is that if the debater can't win an argument on his or her own
merits they then try to shift the topic of the argument. It's a very
common tactic used by anonymous informants on the internet./
