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| Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ Feb. 02 2007,02:42) | | Quote (Stephen Elliott @ Feb. 01 2007,14:12) | | Anyway, I do think Lenny can be too abrupt. But I can understand why. Let's be fair. Any creationist is free to answer back and dispute him (Lenny) on this forum. Ever wonder why most (creationists) just run away? |
Y'all seem to be laboring under the misconception that creationists come here to make arguments and carry on discussions and respond to questions. They, uh, don't. If they DID, they would . . . well . . . ya know, actually present arguments and discuss things and answer questions. They, uh, don't. It's not why they are here. They come here to pick a fight and feed their massive martyr complexes. That's why they never respond to polite people and always respond to "rude" people. They enjoy congratulating themselves over how "oppressed" they are.
They should all thank me for giving them exactly what they want. (shrug)
As an aside, a very good cyber-friend of mine actually did that experiment himself. Over a period of several months, whenever a new creationist appeared -- in an email list we were both on --- he would flip a coin. If it came up heads, he responded politely. If it came up tails, he was harsh and brusque and swore a lot. Guess when he got the most responses? Go on, take a guess . . . .
I encourage others to duplicate that experiment and replicate the results for themselves. |
Lenny is 100% correct.
The only reason creationists today are even able to engage in a conversation with a sane person is the postmodernist idea that all ideas are equal and deserve equal time regardless of the provenance of the idea AND the permission to promote that false idea society gives to essentially Theofacist identity politics.
Creationists are every single one to the last drop COMPLETELY AND UTERLY INSANE and are no different to the 9/11 bombers...they believe the biggest lie ever told.
To draw you into their magical reality; in an attempt to get you to see the world as they do, they practice the most obsequious form of false politeness and quisling behavior it makes me want to vomit.
By being polite to them you further their cause because you remove opposition to their logical fallacy of argumentum ad infinitum.
All they have to do is be polite, nothing else, to them victory will be no noisy cranky opposition.
Anyone who thinks that being polite to a Theofacist will stop them, is living in fantasy land.
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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane
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