>>Richard then gives up arguing and relies on personal attacks. You really do make yourself look shabby with that approach, Richard.

Do you not even think before posting and proving the criticisms others make about you, Richard?

The basic routine is:

Make clear points explaining why Richard’s take is superficial
—Richard makes no points but attacks you as a Christian instead.
Make points to clarify with others why Richard is being superficial.
—Richard makes no points but repeatedly denies that you or he just said what everyone else can read.
Make points to clarify with others why Richard is being superficial. Mock Richard’s partisan approach to show how silly it is.
—Richard still unable to make any points at all but uses cliched snark-irony and calls you crazy, thus proving what you just said about him.
—If really pressed, Richard will claim that his “philosophy” has already settled millenia-old questions and is undisputed except by insane evil people.

Now I’m starting to really smell the crazy.

(When they start talking about you in terms that sound eerily exactly like them, you know it’s time to start slowly backing away…)

I’d hate to be Richard’s date if he doesn’t accept that no means no even after told several times:-)

Apparently violating Richard’s rules means pointing out how superficial he is. Richard then gives up arguing and relies on personal attacks. You really do make yourself look shabby with that approach, Richard.

alandeon2 and pg scoott, thanks for the posts, it gets lonely here in the forest.

Btw, that video was supposed to start at around 8:40 to mock Richard’s mythologies.. You just want to shake that women (or Richard) until her brain wakes up and she starts to think not attack.

LykeX:
3) there was no essential theory behind Greek democracy that saw everyone as equal and drove toward universal equality. So your analogy is not relevant. With Christianity however there was an essential universal ideal that motivated the Church over time. Gay rights today have their greatest defenders in the church and its liberal epigones..
4) I do see some Greeks as problematic in the same manner of Christianity.and having contributed to Christian notions of truth.. I don’t think they had any much cultural force within Greece though. Socrates was a precursor, no doubt, in believing the true world was a still peaceful one separate from ill and evil and this world, an absolute heresy against reality.
5) Elusinian mysteries had nothing of the cultural impact of Christianity. It was more of a sideshow, no?

Hope it helps.

It’s unclear that that is what he meant.

So let’s ask him.

Snowman: did you mean to say “no” as in “No, I am not a Christian”?

Well, this is what he said on Feb 6th

post 7.6 (above)

“Richard et al, you’re actually asking if the guy calling Christianity’s background a mythology, your atheism superficial and ourselves merely the latest iteration of an ape on a rock in space is a Christian??? Uhh, no”

The “Uhh, no” part was the dead giveaway…. 😉

snowman quite clearly stated he was NOT christian two weeks ago

Did he?

Please point me to where.

But Richard, he quite clearly stated he was NOT christian two weeks ago. why is he a douche for wanting you to look for yourself?

You may not agree with his comments but quite clearly, you don’t seem to agree with others general comments anyway so same ol’ same ol’ right?

[Note to readers: though snowman is now routinely violating my comments policy, I am letting his comments through because they demonstrate what a massively immature douchebag he is, which is more than enough to discredit him. He is arguing against himself here. I don’t even need to lift a finger at this point. I may tire of this and just start deleting his posts. But I’ll wait a while, because they are already such effective arguments against him. He’s doing all my work for me!]

Here you are, Richard et al, you sound exactly like this woman explaining the “truth” of how people ought to be treated, you just assume a different mythology as background for what you want to be true. You have the same possessed look in your eyes though.: