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> I'm as good as dead Some might take that as hyperbole, but I'm convinced that is indeed the case. I'm sure that if it was legal there's plenty of Good Christ

by pstuart 12y ago

> I'm as good as dead Some might take that as hyperbole, but I'm convinced that is indeed the case. I'm sure that if it was legal there's plenty of Good Christians who would be thrilled to hunt Liberal Atheists for sport. http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/27/believers-atheists-worse-rapists http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/27/believers-atheists-wor...

Jdoemk2 12y ago
It is hyperbole. And I can't believe you really think "plenty" of people would want to hunt you because of your beliefs. Don't exaggerate. Demonising people you disagree with does not help at all. Sensasionalising these problems won't bring about progress.
- GauntletWizard 12y ago
  I'm not so certain that public lynchings for homosexuality wouldn't occur. On the other hand, there's plenty of people on the other side of the fence who'd see conservatives jailed and beaten (They'd not sully their hands themselves, just require the increasingly large nanny-state to do it) for disagreeing with their concept of 'progress'. Maybe we just need to open the floodgates and let these factions kill each other off.
- ctdonath 12y ago
  People are being pushed off buildings or beheaded precisely because of their beliefs. Today. Oh, sure, it's some war-torn region and done by extremists...but they weren't doing it more than a few months ago, and now the for-that-reason dead are numbering well into 5-6 digits and rising fast. It's real, it's growing, and there's many people who would "hunt you because of your beliefs" if not for the normalcy of rule & law.
  - pstuart 12y ago
    Oh. My. God. (irony intended). Here you completely agree with my original point. But you're only willing to point fingers at the other dominant religion and take umbrage that your own flavor of Abrahamism could ever inspire bad behavior.
ctdonath 12y ago
The directed & stereotypical bash of Christians is unwarranted (not the least of which is that the whole point of "Christian" is proselytizing, not killing). Goes in every direction; if you're going to bash like that, try the recent Greenpeace activist calling for beheading "climate change deniers" http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/25/greenpeace-activist-calls-for-climate-change-deniers-to-be-beheaded/ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/25/greenpeace-activi...
- pstuart 12y ago
  What the fuck? I said "plenty of Good Christians". Maybe I should have quoted the "Good Christians" part. I have family and friends who are Christian and I have no problem with it. A person's relationship between themselves and God is their business. Are you prepared to state that there are no Americans who consider themselves "god fearing folk" who would have no trouble with harming those "not like themselves"? After all, we've never seen any sort of violence against blacks by "Good Christians", have we? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism Or violence against gays, when there are plenty of preachers expounding upon how evil and sick they are, and what a threat they are to society? No, of course not. No Good Christian would do that. And how many people have been beheaded by Greenpeace activists? Really sorry to have offended you with my blasphemy /s
  - ctdonath 12y ago
    Ask your Christian family & friends what they think of casual comments imputing them with a propensity toward religious violence.
    - dragonwriter 12y ago
      I'm Christian and I don't think anything pstuart said about "plenty of Good Christians" was either inaccurate or imputed a propensity toward religious violence to Christians generally, merely indicated that the human propensity for such things was not especially lacking in the Christian community, and which could be expected to erupt from some segments of that community were it sanctioned by law. Which any honest Christian would have to admit is well-grounded factually.

by pstuart 12y ago

Jdoemk2 12y ago

It is hyperbole. And I can't believe you really think "plenty" of people would want to hunt you because of your beliefs. Don't exaggerate. Demonising people you disagree with does not help at all. Sensasionalising these problems won't bring about progress.

GauntletWizard 12y ago
I'm not so certain that public lynchings for homosexuality wouldn't occur. On the other hand, there's plenty of people on the other side of the fence who'd see conservatives jailed and beaten (They'd not sully their hands themselves, just require the increasingly large nanny-state to do it) for disagreeing with their concept of 'progress'. Maybe we just need to open the floodgates and let these factions kill each other off.
ctdonath 12y ago
People are being pushed off buildings or beheaded precisely because of their beliefs. Today. Oh, sure, it's some war-torn region and done by extremists...but they weren't doing it more than a few months ago, and now the for-that-reason dead are numbering well into 5-6 digits and rising fast. It's real, it's growing, and there's many people who would "hunt you because of your beliefs" if not for the normalcy of rule & law.
- pstuart 12y ago
  Oh. My. God. (irony intended). Here you completely agree with my original point. But you're only willing to point fingers at the other dominant religion and take umbrage that your own flavor of Abrahamism could ever inspire bad behavior.

ctdonath 12y ago

The directed & stereotypical bash of Christians is unwarranted (not the least of which is that the whole point of "Christian" is proselytizing, not killing). Goes in every direction; if you're going to bash like that, try the recent Greenpeace activist calling for beheading "climate change deniers" http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/25/greenpeace-activist-calls-for-climate-change-deniers-to-be-beheaded/ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/25/greenpeace-activi...

pstuart 12y ago
What the fuck? I said "plenty of Good Christians". Maybe I should have quoted the "Good Christians" part. I have family and friends who are Christian and I have no problem with it. A person's relationship between themselves and God is their business. Are you prepared to state that there are no Americans who consider themselves "god fearing folk" who would have no trouble with harming those "not like themselves"? After all, we've never seen any sort of violence against blacks by "Good Christians", have we? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism Or violence against gays, when there are plenty of preachers expounding upon how evil and sick they are, and what a threat they are to society? No, of course not. No Good Christian would do that. And how many people have been beheaded by Greenpeace activists? Really sorry to have offended you with my blasphemy /s
- ctdonath 12y ago
  Ask your Christian family & friends what they think of casual comments imputing them with a propensity toward religious violence.
  - dragonwriter 12y ago
    I'm Christian and I don't think anything pstuart said about "plenty of Good Christians" was either inaccurate or imputed a propensity toward religious violence to Christians generally, merely indicated that the human propensity for such things was not especially lacking in the Christian community, and which could be expected to erupt from some segments of that community were it sanctioned by law. Which any honest Christian would have to admit is well-grounded factually.