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To: A_perfect_lady

As I observed before, you are engaging in meanspirited and bigoted railing against people who are (in your vanted opinion) meanspirited and bigoted. Physician, heal thyself.

Moreover, you make the silly assertion that people are here to gloat. Oh, I’ve seen a gloat or two, but for some reason you are benighted enough to think that if a person who has based their entire existence on the idea that salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ even mentions their belief that someone who dies an avowed atheist is probably not in good shape (as the majority of those posting on these threads have), that’s “smirking” and glee.

You remember that Air France plane that disappeared a couple of years ago? Analysis of the black box data shows the pilots misunderstood their situation and stalled the aircraft for several minutes. If someone posts, “they would have been OK if they had pushed the stick forward and built speed” that’s a statement of fact or opinion, not an expression of glee. Same thing if someone says “Well, Chris knows there’s a God now” or “I hope he repented.”

In other words, put away the grievance form and get over yourself.

Reminds me of a joke:
How many atheists does it take to change a light bulb?
THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!!!!!


158 posted on 12/16/2011 8:18:16 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (I want a hippopotamus for Christmas! Only a hippopotamus will do!)
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To: Mr. Silverback
It's a manners issue; you have none. Many of you "God-fearing folks" have none. When someone religous dies, we athiests don't show up at the threads chuckling about how he must have been lying on his death bed just a-waiting to see those angels and the next thing you know, he's just dead! (Guffaw.)

We don't bother gloating because unlike you, we don't have any illusions of the "nyah-nyah, now you're sorry, shoulda listened to ME, ha ha ha" variety. We know that just as there was no "you" before you were born, no fetus-soul floating in space thinking "wish my parents would hurry up and conceive" there is no adult soul anywhere going "Wow, I'm dead!"

You will never know you wasted your life curtailing your brain power and preventing yourself from asking hard questions. Happily, anyone who'd accept these stories probably has little to waste. But as I said, if you'd have the manners to refrain from making your remarks, you'd avoid hearing from those of us who think you are ill-bred fools. If you don't like hearing from us, don't make us hear from you.

Otherwise, deal with it.

174 posted on 12/17/2011 7:32:41 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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