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Originally Posted by eolas pellor
And that is a good example of being sophomoric; you took a VERY GENERAL remark, about atheist arguments, as an attack on you.
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The subject was atheism. You said, and I quote:
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It's such a "sewer" of an ideology; and that reflects its essential sophomoric character.
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That, the way I read it, is a definitive statement, lacking any conditionals or verbs in the subjunctive mood. As I am an atheist who posts on this site, a fact of which you are aware, it would also seem to apply to me.
If the subject were Christianity, and I had written that I had been a Christian once, but eventually came to the conclusion that, "It's such a "sewer" of an ideology; and that reflects its essential sophomoric character," would there be no Christian who would take that as an offensive remark against something which they feel defines them?
If that's truly the case, then I am sorry I took offense. At the same time, however, I think that we should henceforward all feel perfectly free to make whatever such remarks, couched in the same declarative language, about any belief system we'd like.