The One True Religion

[ColinEssex]

Is there an 'overzealous bible basher' moderator around here?

I wouldn't know, you tell us. . . . . you are the expert in assessing people

Col

 

[Bodisathva]

Are they Double Dutch?

Pennsylvania Dutch descend from German ancestry as opposed to the Netherlands

 

[KenHigg]

I wouldn't know, you tell us. . . . . you are the expert in assessing people

Col

Typical spineless response.

 

[Rich]

Pennsylvania Dutch descend from German ancestry as opposed to the Netherlands

How can they be called Dutch then and not American?

 

[Bodisathva]

How can they be called Dutch then and not American?

You'll find the only people interested in connotating their "minority" status by appending the "American" behind their national heritage, i.e. African American, Latin American, are only interested in retaining that segregation. We Native Americans, or as the rest of my family goes German Americans (and in some small amount, Pennsylvania Dutch), could care less...We're American.

 

[ColinEssex]

Typical spineless response.

In what way?

Col

 

[KenHigg]

In what way?

Col

You're quick with the generic name calling and accusations but when it comes to being specific you're remarks seem spinelsss:

spineless

adj 1: weak in willpower [syn: namby-pamby, wishy-washy] 2: lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" [syn: gutless] [ant: gutsy]

If you think I'm an 'overzealous bible basher', call me that and tell me why. You don't have to beat around the bush. If you think I deleted his post why don't you ask me?

 

[Rich]

You'll find the only people interested in connotating their "minority" status by appending the "American" behind their national heritage, i.e. African American, Latin American, are only interested in retaining that segregation. We Native Americans, or as the rest of my family goes German Americans (and in some small amount, Pennsylvania Dutch), could care less...We're American.

I wonder why African Americans feel segregated

 

[Rich]

You don't have to beat around the bush.

We'd jolly well like to

 

[jsanders]

You're quick with the generic name calling and accusations but when it comes to being specific you're remarks seem spinelsss:



If you think I'm an 'overzealous bible basher', call me that and tell me why. You don't have to beat around the bush. If you think I deleted his post why don't you ask me?

They've just run out of new negative things to say about us.

It might be easier if they copied all of their irrelevant insults and nonsensical dribblings and just pasted them whenever a thread had the appearance of going somewhere constructive.

 

[Rich]

They've just run out of new negative things to say about us.

That'll never happen

It might be easier if they copied all of their irrelevant insults and nonsensical dribblings and just pasted them whenever a thread had the appearance of going somewhere constructive.

Where's the constructive part that you speak of?

 

[jsanders]

Anyway.

It doesn’t seem like anyone has decided to follow up on my atheist bashing, so I’ll post it as a question.

Why is it that the most, vehement, obnoxious, orthodox, fundamentalist, religious fanatics, I have ever met, have been atheist?

Why would someone who doesn’t believe in creation, care at all if we believe or not.

 

[Rich]

Why is it that the most, vehement, obnoxious, orthodox, fundamentalist, religious fanatics, I have ever met, have been atheist?

Your own church membership is too small?

 

[ColinEssex]

You're quick with the generic name calling and accusations but when it comes to being specific you're remarks seem spinelsss:

If you think I'm an 'overzealous bible basher', call me that and tell me why. You don't have to beat around the bush. If you think I deleted his post why don't you ask me?

Paranoid again are you? Nowhere have I mentioned your name. The generic term I used may (or may not) cover several people - I really don't know or care.

It was nice here last week.

Col

 

[Bodisathva]

Why is it that the most, vehement, obnoxious, orthodox, fundamentalist, religious fanatics, I have ever met, have been atheist?

Because it is human nature to demonize that which we perceive as different from ourselves

 

[jsanders]

Paranoid again are you? Nowhere have I mentioned your name. The generic term I used may (or may not) cover several people - I really don't know or care.

It was nice here last week.

Col

Col,

You should be ashamed of yourself for pretending that your generalizations aren’t meant to be taken personally.

It is a very week minded approach to insulting people, plus it tries to insult them twice by implying that they are too stupid to get it. But that part backfires as being too transparent.

 

[jsanders]

Because it is human nature to demonize that which we perceive as different from ourselves

Yes, but you would think that the highly evolved atheist would be above such nonsense.

 

[ColinEssex]

Col,

You should be ashamed of yourself for pretending that your generalizations aren’t meant to be taken personally.

It is a very week minded approach to insulting people, plus it tries to insult them twice by implying that they are too stupid to get that. But that part backfires as being too transparent.

Now listen - I'm not ashamed of anything - I have no idea how many moderators or whatever there are, plus I have no idea of all of their religious opinions therefore I could not be specific. I know some have become power-crazed since they have had "the power" , we were self policing for years quite happily.

If Rich's post was deleted by one of them (it may not have been), it was quickly done (overzealous) and if they took exception to the scientology bit then they could be bible bashers - so I stand by my comment.

If someone with the ability to delete posts recognises themselves in my comment - then thats hardly my fault

Col

 

[Bodisathva]

Yes, but you would think that the highly evolved atheist would be above such nonsense.

...just as the highly evolved christian and the highly evolved muslim??

 

[Ron_dK]

Pennsylvania Dutch descend from German ancestry as opposed to the Netherlands

I guess , this story tells it all :

http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/culture/index.htm

Dutch came from the word Deutsch and the majority of the people coming from new England were germans and not from the lowlands