(11-18-2017, 10:22 AM)BIAD Wrote:(11-18-2017, 08:19 AM)Ninurta Wrote: What goes for Muslims, in my view, applies equally to Atheists. They can hunt their own evidence down and cook it in their own camp.
And the emphasis -in my opinion, is on the words 'own camp'!
Well, to be honest, I'd be just as happy for the Christians to stay in their own camps, too - at least the Christians as they present themselves these days. I've never been able to find anywhere in the bible where it says "go forth and harass folks, beat 'em with a bible until it makes a thumping sound if you have to, and keep it up until they come around to your way of thinking." That sort of proselytizing or forced conversion sounds disturbingly Islamic to me.
Although Jesus did say to go forth and preach the gospel, nowhere did he say "harangue the crap out of folks who don't want to hear it to begin with until they hate the very ground on which thou standeth." That, to me, seems a bit counterproductive to "conversion" or "getting the message out", as it seems to be rather offputting of the message they claim they're trying to get across.
Kinda like a beheading can be offputting.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’