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Thread #151015   Message #3525259
Posted By: Little Hawk
11-Jun-13 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Can all Athiests be lumped together?
Subject: RE: BS: Can all Athiests be lumped together?
"didn't walk around all day knocking on doors asking people if they had let (whoever) into their lives"

Musket? The percentage of religious people who actually do that is absolutely tiny. Mostly it's some Jehovah's Witnesses and some Mormons who do, in my experience. So...why do you speak as though that's what "religious people" as a general category do, when hardly any of them actually do it?

That's what Jack is referring to as lumping people together, and he started the thread NOT to lump all atheists together, but to point out that it's stupid to stereotype people BY lumping them all together as though they all shared some characteristic you don't like. I know you're not dead stupid, so you probably have realized that...but you can't seem to be bothered to acknowledge it. Is it more fun for you just to continue the feuding and wisecracks and deliberately avoid recognizing the actual point Jack is making?

He's saying that you treat people without respect and stereotype them if they happen to be "religious". That you lump them all together. And he appears to be quite correct, going by your many remarks on the subject.

The fact that the two of you have gone on about it this long indicates that you're both unwilling to let go without getting in the last word. Typical of battling egos. My bet is that you'll still be going on about it a year from now, and nothing will have changed, but you'll have at least provided some idle amusement for people like me who read the thread every day...and perhaps occasionally comment on it.