No, you weren't. You were directly accusing dems of something and making statements about his character.
500 years ago, you would have referred to my position in support of heliocentrism as humanism, and then you would have burned me at the stake. The bad news is that your faith remains as weak today. The good news is that you’re out of matches.
Passing it off as *just a joke* is typical playground bully tactics to blame shift when caught red-handed in a vain attempt to claim innocence and make the other person look bad.
Not buying it.
It is clear that creationists have no capacity for any sort of figurative, parallel, or non-literal usage of any kind. I won’t try to explain it further—the thread remains for future generations to marvel at.