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Thread #150086 Message #3497692
Posted By: MGM·Lion
02-Apr-13 - 02:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Are Atheists really Atheists or......
Subject: RE: BS: Are Atheists really Atheists or......
Not a matter of 'flying over anyone's head': just that one is naturally suspicious of any defence of the symbolic (which is what we take your deities to be), expressed entirely figuratively, in terms of metaphor {'tesla coil', 'keeping filters clean', 'flush your brain'}.
"Illustrious 'atheists'" ~~ why the quotes round 'atheists', except as some sort of vaguely implied belittling device? We are not 'atheists', we are atheists. Are you a 'Christian' rather than a Christian, I wonder — with the implied insincere wilfulness, the suggestion of "He only does it to annoy because he knows it teases" — which the quote marks would seem to imply?
~M~