Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Yet another Angry Atheist encounter

My friend, +Jason Horton, please know, like you, I am tolerant of other beliefs and non-beliefs. I have not degraded our conversation to name-calling, however.

I'm neither trying to convince you that you are right or wrong. I am discussing another issue, a way of seeing things, that it appears you have selected to omit.

+Jason Horton wrote: "As for Muslims and suicide murderers surely you are aware of Jews and Christians doing exactly the same thing." 

Clearly, in the recent time, it would appear that Muslim suicide bombers have the majority. As for Christian suicide bombers, I don't have any in my circle of friends and neither do I keep bomb making material around my place.

While Wikipedia is not a scholarly source,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism will help you with your war against Christianity. While I don't see a large quantity of suicide bombers listed there, I see disturbing reports of people behaving very un-Christlike.

Prior to this century, the record for suicide bombers was held by the Kamikaze of World War II.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze Clearly, they were not Muslim, Jewish, or Christian.

Here's an interesting concept for you:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheist

While this is not an effort to convert you to anything, there's an interesting list of people who you would find offensive now.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_atheists_and_agnostics


+Jason Horton asked "Where is your evidence that Jesus existed?" http://amzn.to/rzoM4f will get you started. 
Verbiage such as "of your rubbish", "under the delusion", and "you are ignorant" will show the reader that you are not tolerant. You attempt to be insulting. If you define that as tolerant, you appear to have a strange definition of the word.http://bit.ly/vWi6AL 

"It is still considered acceptable to have a religion" in the USA as well. You are not my first encounter with an Angry Atheist.

From this,http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html, I can see why you are angry. You have all the more reason to bring legal action, if any of those events occurred in your life. Fortunately, I think you were not as aggrieved as you would lead readers to believe.

Since you admit that you are an atheist and I find some humor in the manner in which you chose to state the obvious, that does not absolve you from being civil. In other words, during this discourse, I have not attacked your scholarship or sincerity regarding the faith with which you hold your non-belief. This is particularly true when, as you write, "I don't know you".

Again, please accept my apologies for the offenses you have concluded I singularly have placed in your way. Clearly, the acts of which I am alleged to have committed where not what my Lord Jesus would have me to have done.

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