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Quigley says

Ignorance! This just shows me that for all your ranting, you have never truly looked into religion. Yes, certain nations have favored or even government enforced religions, but thankfully we do not live in one of those.

Quigley, you ignorant slut. When I say religion is a hierarchical power structure based on superstition it is because

1. Religions wield power over their disciples and most often the nations inhabited by their disciples.
2. Religions are hierarchies whether we're talking about the Catholic Church, Orthodox Jews, Islamic sects, or any other religious group.
3. The higher a cleric is in the religious hierarchy, the more power he has.

To deny this is obscenely stupid.

Quigley says

Certainly the Wiccan faith is superstition according to your beliefs, but they hardly run around trying to force others to draw pentacles and pray to woodland spirits.

The words faith and religion are not synonymous, dumb ass.

But you know who has gone around trying to force people to convert? Every fucking successful religion in human history including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. And they all used torture, death, and rape as techniques for saving souls.

Quigley says

Translation: "I do not even understand the argument presented, let alone have a coherent argument to sustain my point." Calling someone who just handed you your rhetorical ass an "idiot" only proves that you have nothing of substance to say.

Wrong translation you you dirt-eating piece of slime, you scum-sucking pig, you son of a motherless goat. But hey, if you really want me to tear you a new asshole here, I'll gladly oblige.

Your original statement was that I, like Mao, am in favor of committing genocide because that's the only way to get rid of religion.

Yet, just this morning I stated unequivocally

Still, I think the Islamic world can be modernized without force. The Internet is a powerful tool for spreading information. If the Middle East had unrestricted Internet access -- at least unrestricted in some places -- then the culture will change.

in response to Raw's statement

It took criticism and force to bring the Christian world into the modern world.
Now the modern world refuses to use criticism and force to bring Islam into the modern world.
I feel it it is us who are being dragged into their medieval world.

Well, that completely disproves your bat-shit assertion that I want to commit genocide, which by the way is such a fucking stupid assertion that it needs not even be addressed. My posting history is full of examples where I promote reasoning, scientific education, and economic development as the means of combating religious bigotry and violence. So, yeah, I'm just like fucking Mao.

You know what, I'm amending Godwin's Law to include comparisons to Mao and other genocidal maniacs.

Your statements do show one important thing. The Christian right is so fucked up in the brain that they actually think they are "handing you your rhetorical ass" when they show what utter fools they are. Just like you think Romney stands a chance of winning now after coming out against half the country. Reality never gets through that bubble.

But hey, your so fucking winning it's amazing. You snort coke off of Charlie Sheen's balls.

It would be one thing if you actually made a good point and then bragged about it, but when you brag about an asinine argument that's been torn apart to a humiliating extent, you just show that the new Republican strategy -- and I know you are a Republican because no Democrat is this batshit crazy and delusional -- is to take utter failure and call it victory.

Can't control anger, troll too much of an ass...
http://www.youtube.com/embed/z4gN_yc_7ug

I want you off the fucking site you prick!

I ain’t the one strawmanning. Let’s get Shrek and put this back on and let’s go again. Seriously man, you and me, we’re fucking done professionally. Fucking ass.

Dan8267 says, "You are trashing my thread!"

No, your last post did that. Wow, I mean wow!! That was some totally insane ranting. I don't think I've ever seen such a glaring example of someone who is off his meds crazy as what you "wrote," and I'm putting that in quotes because I have respect for the written word, but crazy stuff like that shouldn't qualify. I know thunderlips usually agrees with you, but I bet he won't want to be associated with what you just wrote. His posts don't seem crazy, at least.

Sorry to wreck your thread, but honestly, it was offensive to begin with. You cherry-picked a news story, took a quote about nebulous unconfirmed death threats, and asserted that Christians are homicidal control freaks. I take issue with that. I defended my POV, vigorously. You flipped out and fell off the crazy tree, hitting every branch on the way down. If you can't have a reasonable discussion without resorting to name calling and swearing at anyone who disagrees with your POV, it WOULD be better if you took a break from the forum.
Good day, sir!

Quigley says

To eliminate it is to eliminate those who hold such beliefs. Since that is what you advocate: congratulations! You most resemble chairman Mao! If given a choice you would kill millions to advance your ideology.

Although obviously fallacious, this particular straw man argument is very common in religious circles. The reason people fall for it is because they hear it from a source their parents have told them to trust: their preachers. The reason the preachers say it is because fear works. If you frighten people with sermons of hellfire and brimstone, and get them to mistrust everyone else, then you can control them. When people become fearful, they retreat from the unknown to the familiar. They then donate to their church, not due to charitable compassion but out of fear, trying to appease the deity or deities whom they have questioned or defied. (Doubt is intrinsic to faith, even though fundamentalism denies it, and we are all of us sinners.) The church then becomes rich, thus "proving" the validity of its doctrine, QED.

Quigley says

No, your last post did that. Wow, I mean wow!! That was some totally insane ranting.

I would not take anything written in Hulk green too seriously.

leo707 says

Quigley says

No, your last post did that. Wow, I mean wow!! That was some totally insane ranting.

I would not take anything written in Hulk green too seriously.

The dumb ones never get the joke. Even when you go through the effort of making an obvious setup.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/qrvMTv_r8sA

How many times have we read something like that? Think about it. We are outraged of course. Because well its newspeople folks. The ones that bring us the stark truth every single day of the week.