No, Romper Room. Please try to grow up and realize that everything isn't about you personally.
Reading for comprehension, we see that what I said was that my lifetime of personal experience trumps - in regards to my belief - your one post with a bunch of unverifiable crap from an unknown Internet blogger. The specific number of years I've been alive, not to mention how many there are in relation to yours (which I didn't know or care about until you mentioned it just now), is not the point.
That doesn't make your opinion more valuable than a bloggers, or mine, or anyone else's. It makes it different. You are not superior to anyone else here.
No one ever said my opinion was more valuable, you illiterate juvenile. The point is that it's an OPINION. It should not be cited as evidence of anything EXCEPT my opinion, and some Internet blogger's opinion shouldn't be cited as evidence of anything except HIS opinion, about which nary a **** is given on this message board.
I didn't ask you to tell me someone's opinion on what's taught in parochial schools, not his or yours or anyone else's. I asked you to tell me FACT, and you wasted my ******* time.
And yeah, I AM superior to many people on here, including you, if only because I know not to believe everything I see on the Internet. The big difference, though, is that MY sense of superiority has some basis beyond rebelling against my parents and thinking it makes me original.
"Just because I haven't heard of someone" doesn't make them wrong OR right. It makes them not someone I'm going to trust and believe. Didn't your mommy ever warn you about Stranger Danger?
As it happens, I think 100% of Americans are wrong . . . at some point in their lives. Whether or not they're wrong at any given moment depends entirely on what they're saying. And whether or not I'm going to trust them depends entirely on whether or not I know them to be reliable. I don't know that about geeks on blogs that I've never laid eyes on before.
Except you don't think anything on the Internet is reliable.
I think lots of stuff on the Internet is reliable. Blogs don't happen to fall into that category, though.
Now, had you cited me an actual school website, or even a major news outlet's website, containing those quotes, we might have had a basis for discussion, because those are at least verifiable, putatively-responsible organizations. But you didn't. You cited me some asshole in Los Angeles bloviating on his home computer about his ******* opinion.
Since your use of the "quote" function sucks almost as bad as your whining, I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it really doesn't matter. You seem afflicted with a common leftist ailment: the belief that words like "hypocrite" have no meaning beyond "something bad to say about someone I don't like".
Unfortunately for you, the word "hypocrite" has an ACTUAL definition (See? You should have gone to parochial school, and they would have taught it to you). And I don't fit it.
Except I have two kids as well, so I know just as much about it as you do.
Oh? I don't believe I've ever met a woman named "Glen" before. How interesting.
You're telling me you've never even bothered to memorize the Bible? Never even tried?
By all means, Romper Room, tell me where in ANY of my posts I've ever said, or even implied, such a thing. Once again, you should have gone to parochial school. They could have taught you reading comprehension.
You never went to enough services to pull out verses that you know and take to heart? So there's nothing in the Bible that sticks with you? Okay, sure.
Let's put it this way, Romper Room. All you need to know about my personal life and personal religious training is that I didn't get it from atheist websites listing talking points with which to be crass and intrusive into others' lives. Anything else falls under the same heading as whether or not I believe in God and teach my children to do the same: NONE OF YOUR ******* BUSINESS, SO BUTT OUT.
And I'm a loser? Because I memorized the Bible?
You're a loser because you put this much effort into disbelieving in something. I disbelieve in whole rafts of things every day of my life, and never actually have to work at doing so. You might want to consider finding a better use of your time.
Well, then, with all the hate you're shoving about, I guess that makes you a bigot.
Yet another word you clearly think has no meaning beyond "a mean thing to say about people I don't like".
If my standards were set so high, then why in the **** would I defend someone's right to be a Christian from people like the OP, who think that religion is a disease and that all religious people are wrong?
First of all, Romper Room, the issue isn't whether your standards are high or low. It's the fact that you hubristically think you're setting ANY standards at all, or that you are anyone whose standards people give a damn about meeting.
Second of all, if I ever hear you defend someone's right to be a Christian, we can certainly discuss that. At the moment, I'm busy dealing with your belief that it's okay to be a snotty, condescending little bigot (See, this is actually the CORRECT use of the word) and say and do things online that you would never have the gall - or the guts - to say to someone's face.
I've never once said that I think Christians are wrong. I've said I hated religion, yes, but I've never denied you the ability to believe what you want.
Oh, so you came into a thread that was about how stupid Christians are, how their religious schools teach children garbage and fantasy, and how anyone who sends their children to such schools should be charged with child abuse; you then post a picture that is allegedly from a Christian textbook and is supposed to demonstrate how terrible parochial science education is, and which is derived from a blog about how stupid Christians are and how bad their education of their children is; and now you tell me how you've NEVER said that you think Christians are wrong. All this being aside from your pissy little attacks on me AS a Christian because I dared to give back what you dished out.
Do you really believe that? I don't. But if you really want me to believe you're that damned ignorant and oblivious, I suppose I can try.
It's very big of you to accord me my First Amendment right to believe as I please, though. Quite generous. The fact that I don't recall having ever ASKED you for your permission, or indeed ever asked you to register any opinion on the subject in the first place, should not in any way detract from my EXTREME gratitude that you're only going to harass and insult me, as opposed to trying to send me to a gulag.
Thanks so much.
What I see before me is someone who's not really a Christian.
It's fortunate for me that, like setting the standards for practicing Christianity, you will not be in charge of judging people's Christianity. It's not so fortunate for YOU, since you just committed a fairly serious sin, which you would know if you were actually as informed on the subject as you like to congratulate yourself on being.
MarcATL is a Christian. Avatar4321 is a Christian. You're just someone who wears the label, but obviously can't see past your own bigotry to know any better.
I feel certain that if God had died and left you the power to see and judge people's souls, someone would have sent me a memo. Until such time, my Christianity or lack thereof is between me and Him, and is yet another thing that falls under the heading that so much of your hubristic conversation does: NONE OF YOUR ******* BUSINESS.
Let me know if you ever actually see a post by me that appears to be requesting any of these opinions that you feel the need to force upon me, so that I can then explain how nary a **** is given about what you think.
The same could be said to you. You think you're so important because you can talk down to me and anyone else who doesn't see the world the way you do.
No, Romper Room. I don't think I'm important because I can talk down to you. Unlike you, I have no need to try to derive importance from anything on the Internet.
I DO, however, think I'm at least two standard deviations higher than you in IQ points, and whole lifetimes ahead of you in wisdom and experience. Just for starters, I'VE learned to mind my own business when it comes to other people's religious beliefs.
Which proves how close-minded you are. Like I said, if someone had proof that God didn't exist, thus invalidating the Bible, you would refuse to believe it.
If someone had proof that God did exist, thus invalidating your only basis for thinking you're worth more than the contents of my kitty litter box, you'd probably kill yourself.
And again, I should point out that the problem here isn't that I'm close-minded; it's that you are utterly unpersuasive in anything you say. You have yet to muster a single coherent argument for anything you believe. Your one attempt fell apart almost immediately, and degenerated into "Well, you're a poopyhead. You suck. You believe in God, so you're stupid, and I know more than you!"
How "open-minded" am I supposed to be to someone who's behaving like a teenager in Goth makeup at the Thanksgiving dinner table, not to mention being less entertaining?
Newsflash, *****, but I have done this in person.
Oh, my apologies for giving you more credit than you were due. I had not realized that you were a cretinous savage both online AND off. Your parents must be SO proud to know they succeeded in raising you without a single shred of good manners or civilized behavior.
In case you were wondering, people like you are a big reason why Christians send their kids to religious school.
I have more of a right then you do. I actually followed what was written in the Bible, something you've yet to achieve.
Really, Romper Room? You think this is about "rights"? Or is that just one of those memes adolescents spit out in the middle of their tantrums? I wouldn't know. My kids went to religious school, so they had better manners than you do.
Being qualified to preach Christianity to people has very little to do with memorizing set little verses off of an atheist website, or out of some college textbook, Romper Room. Even Satan can quote Scripture and twist it to his purpose. When humans do the same thing, they're called "false prophets", and if you don't like the lack of respect that earns you . . . well, we're back to nary a **** being given.
In short, you have a right to say anything you want. What you DON'T have a right to is to be respected, taken seriously, or listened to without raucous laughter at your idiocy. THAT would all be stuff you have to be qualified for. And you aren't.
You post shit on the Internet and expect me not to comment? Okay.
No, I just expect that when you do, you take your lumps like a man instead of a sniveling little girl, bellyaching that I'm not nice enough to you in return for your attacks on my religion.
Good, because God doesn't want your sorry ass anyway.
Are you supposed to be His secretary now, or his PR liaison? I realize He's spoken to people through jackasses before, but . . .
And how are you doing that? Because whatever you're trying it's failing miserably.
1) Learn to use the "quote" function, Romper Room. It's so simple, even a dunce like you should be able to master it.
2) Have you been taking lessons from the Jake Starkey "I'm rubber, and you're glue" School of Political Debate?
Take a good look in the mirror before you post next time. If you don't see God looking back, don't bother trying to speak for Him. And if you don't see Billy Graham looking back, don't try to preach. The absolute LAST people who should be happy about the way I practice my faith is ill-mannered cretins who introduced themselves by telling me how stupid my faith is.
I'll talk for God if I want to. You don't know shit about the Bible, so what gives you the right to even say you're right about anything?
Okay. And I'll tell you you're an ill-mannered, arrogant little dumbfuck who doesn't even realize what an utter laughingstock he's making of himself if I want to.
In this case, we're not talking about "saying I'm right", dolt. We're talking about saying that my life, my beliefs, and my relationship with God are NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. You are not God. You are not me. Ergo, YOU ARE NOT INVOLVED. I did not ask you. I do not respect you as a human being, or even as a complex higher organism at this point.
What gives me the right to tell you to butt the **** out of my life and keep your unsolicited opinions about it to yourself is the fact that IT'S MY LIFE.
Are you seeing a theme here, Romper Room?
Mention it as soon as possible so that you can show everyone how upset you are by pretending you're not. If you REALLY didn't care, you wouldn't have said anything.
God, Romper Room, Lady Godiva on a power mower is less obvious than you are.
At least Lady Godiva would be a pleasant sight to the hate-spewing abortion you consider your life is.
edit They can do better than idiots like you.
And now you've earned yourself an ignore. Congratulations, Romper Room. You went from fresh new poster to scum-sucking jizzwad beneath notice in record time.
FLUSH!
