Comments on: Carnival of the Godless for Loons

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:41:57 +0000

Having a Yahweh-belief or a Xenu-belief or even a pasta-belief is completely fine with me. Except for the latter, I see no good reason for such, but I really don’t care how other people choose to waste their neurons (and some of those people have so few neurons to waste!).

I’m pretty sure the pastafarians (FSM) are established to mock the rest — not as a true belief system. (As with the IPU followers…)

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:32:15 +0000

I always took it as a sign of weakness whenever someone gets their precious feelings hurt over some harmless name-calling. Every time believers express their outrage over some offense, trivial or otherwise, its the perfect expression of how freaking insecure they really are about what they claim to believe in. Of course, the “fundier” they are, the less secure they will be.

I have plenty of relatives who are religious, which really doesn’t bother me, as they do not feel the need to impose it on me. They more readily engage in discussions concerning belief, complete with the give-and-take one would expect in a normal conversation, without muttering inanely about my pending damnation. The people Ron had in mind when he conceived of this blog have no such reservations, and would willingly ring in the dark ages all over again to justify their own intellectual and moral cowardice. They deserve as much scorn and ridicule as we can muster, and I don’t care if that means I’ll never change one of their minds. Its not like they’re able to re-examine their beliefs, anyway.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:19:44 +0000

It wasn’t meant as an attack, but I suppose it could be misinterpreted that way.

By: Paul Fidalgo

Paul Fidalgo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:38:44 +0000

Hey hey now, be fair. You didn’t just disagree with my ideas, you also characterized me personally as soft-of-spine and whatnot. Reads like an “attack” to me.

But hold on.

*Reconsiders*

Yeah, I’m sticking with that.

My dubious attempt at levity aside, you can see what I mean, yes?

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:48:22 +0000

Or you can assume that anybody who disagrees with you is attacking you and then go to his blog and leave a reactionary comment. But you don’t do that do you? You’re too busy reconsidering.

By: Paul Fidalgo

Paul Fidalgo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:41:49 +0000

What you call buckling, I call reconsideration. Or perhaps elaboration. Or explanation. Or exploration. These are the things we enlightened folks are supposed to be capable of. I suppose when accused of something, the most sensible response is to lash back just as hard. Or, conversely, you can “buckle,” and by that I mean use the opportunity to learn something, explain your reasoning, and think differently. But we wouldn’t want that.