Today I indulged in one of my less fortunate hobbies and went over to www.carm.org to chat with the Christians. As usual, we didn’t agree. What’s unusual is that they banned me. And I wasn’t personally insulting anyone, or anything. Oh, I did talk about how God and Satan might be the same entity, but I don’t really think *that* was worthy of banning.<\/p>\n
One bit about my final defense struck me as apt, so I’m going to quote it here. Later I may regret it, but right now it feels true.<\/p>\n
Sheer: I want you all to remember
\nSheer: This is what happened to Jesus
\nSheer: people didn’t like his ideas, so they killed him
\nJavy: Loan…sheer embraces contradictions and says they’re not contradictions y
\net used the same logic he tries to defy to arrive at his explanation that they a
\nre not contradictions
\nJavy: No need to listen to him.
\nSheer: Javy doesn’t like my ideas so he’s about to ban me
\nJavy: He’s just silly.
\nSheer: Not as bad as killing, but still pretty much a ‘shut the *** up’.<\/p>\n
He did, of course, ban me almost immediately. <\/p>\n
I had to fight with the urge to knock the chat room off the net. I certainly could have – with a couple of well placed commands, even – but it wouldn’t be right for me to do so. It’s their place, they can kick me out if they want. It just doesn’t seem like a very enlightened attitude to have.<\/p>\n
And perhaps my problem is that while I’m violently disagreeing with the tenants of Christianity, I’m looking for enlightened behavior from Christians. I’m not saying the two are mutually exclusive – after all, I’ve known some pretty enlightened Christians – but just that they aren’t particularly aligned either. There seem to be so many people who can’t imagine what it would be like to be on the other end. Maybe at times I’m guilty of that particular sin myself, but at least I’m aware of it.<\/p>\n
I do, honestly, feel like it was their loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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