Michael Gray wrote:
> On 26 Nov 2007 21:13:02 -0600, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >Michael Gray wrote:
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> >> On 25 Nov 2007 23:08:01 -0600, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> wrote:
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> >> >"Christopher A.Lee" wrote:
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> >> >> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:04:24 +1030, Michael Gray
> >> >> <mikegray@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> >> >On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:16:22 -0800 (PST), Olrik
<olrik666@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> >wrote:
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> >> >> >>On Nov 24, 10:52 am, Christopher A.Lee <ca...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> >> >> >>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:48:57 -0000, "Bill M"
<wm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> >>> wrote:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> >There are thousands of different God beliefs.
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> >If there is a real God why would it permit his flock to be so
terribly
> >> >> >>> >misled?
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> Why are you asking this on an atheist newsgroup, moron?
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> Do you get your rocks off starting cross-posting flame wars?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>Relax, dude. Bill M has been posting for years here in a.a. He's
a
> >> >> >>genuine atheist. Chill out.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Mr. Lee is an equal op****tunity anti-spammer.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Bill M is known for starting cross-posts to various theist'
> >> >> >newsgroups; posts that seem to me to be intentionally
inflammatory.
> >> >> >Chris has every right to complain about this deliberate and
uncivil
> >> >> >provocation.
> >> >> >It is the same low gutter tactics that the criminal
fundamentalists
> >> >> >employ.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Atheist or not, Bill is committing a social faux pas by stooping
to
> >> >> >their level.
> >> >>
> >> >> Yep.
> >> >
> >> >Bill is carrying out a public service
> >> >since groveling to imaginary gods is a mental disease
> >>
> >> That may be true, but it neither negates Christopher's nor my
> >> observations, nor excuses the stooping to the theists' abominably low
> >> moral level.
> >> Such can be executed *without* degradation.
> >
> >Yes but I don't see any degradation in Bill's posts.
> >Other than when he gets some silly dodging and weaving reponse and then
it is a
> >case of like with like.
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> I was referring to the degredation of his techniques, stooping to
> deliberate and continuous unsolicited provocation, not his actual
> arguments.
'A simple question do gods exist' is hardly unsolicited provocation. In
this day
and age when thousands die every month in opposing religious beleifs and
cults, the
question sits firmly in the humanist camp. IMO.
Exactly what provocative statements do you have in mind?
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