Reply #51: I read the thread and I checked the names twice... [View All]

[ironbark]

It’s late and I’m not Santa…..but I didn’t see anything about ““They want me to leave, I'll leave”…If somebody is going to go out of their way to call me intolerant and hateful”…in fact I didn’t even see Evomans name as a thread participant.

Ok…there is a history within R/T and AA of contention regarding the meaning and motive of “THAT label” (“He whos name must not be mentioned young Harry Potter” ). But I cannot see any link between the thread and the question I asked.

I thank you for your expression of respect…to you and all participants the feeling is reciprocated.
I’m struggling to understand how challenge to a stated pov is so frequently personalised or extrapolated and globalised.

From the link provided-
“Raise your hand... If you are a militant fundamentalist atheist who wants to destroy all religion, and kill believers in the name of your atheistic ferver!”

I would hope it is a joke? A deliberate straw man exaggeration of the original (un nameable) proposition? But it seems to get repeated, as a serious reflection, in one form or another in thread after thread.
>As if< the criticism of the expressed pov of some atheists was a personal attack on them and a blanket sleight on all atheists.

“Cause you know, thats the majority view of atheists on this board”

Um….no….I’ve been reading pretty carefully and that is nothing like what has been expressed.

I’m honestly finding it almost impossible to reconcile the disparity between what is actually said and the extrapolation, exaggeration and misrepresentation that is reflected back.

Often it is the 180% direct opposite of the pov presented.

All that aside….I still have no insight as to the origins of the feelings expressed by Evoman in this thread.