Jenab
January 22nd, 2007, 03:43 AM
Being an atheist myself, I went to the science subforum of "The Ethical Atheist" to post a proof regarding the feasiblity of diverting certain asteroids into a collision course with Earth. Not that I want such a thing to happen, of course. I was just trying to show that it could be done.
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3677
If the Ethical Atheist mods delete the thread there, I've copied it to the Prussian Blue forum, here:
http://officialprussianblue.net/showthread.php?t=4454
One of the regulars there challenged me to document my data with sources, so I did. One of the sources was a paper that I wrote on the subject of transfer orbits, which was posted to the Prussian Blue (the band of Lynx and Lamb Gaede) "Science & Technology" subforum.
Because of where the paper was located, several liberal atheists felt obliged to raise a huge stink about how awful racism is and, therefore, how morally atrocious racists must be. I decided to accept that issue as a challenge, and I offered to debate any single one of them, whomever was the most knowledgeable about race, to a fair and open debate on the subject of "Whether the races are equals or unequal."
I got no takers. Instead, I received insults, slander, lies, strawman arguments, and other sorts of obfuscation and deception. I tried to appeal to the pride that Atheists traditionally have had in the faculty of Reason, and I reminded them of the spirit to which Atheism has traditionally adhered, namely, a rejection of Sacred Dogmas, in every form.
It was all to no avail. If you want to see a bunch of Atheists behaving like bragging, immature, mean-yet-cowardly, little boys, feel free to check out the thread. It would be amusing, were it not so disheartening. Atheists used to be so much better than those fellows.
Jerry Abbott
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3677
If the Ethical Atheist mods delete the thread there, I've copied it to the Prussian Blue forum, here:
http://officialprussianblue.net/showthread.php?t=4454
One of the regulars there challenged me to document my data with sources, so I did. One of the sources was a paper that I wrote on the subject of transfer orbits, which was posted to the Prussian Blue (the band of Lynx and Lamb Gaede) "Science & Technology" subforum.
Because of where the paper was located, several liberal atheists felt obliged to raise a huge stink about how awful racism is and, therefore, how morally atrocious racists must be. I decided to accept that issue as a challenge, and I offered to debate any single one of them, whomever was the most knowledgeable about race, to a fair and open debate on the subject of "Whether the races are equals or unequal."
I got no takers. Instead, I received insults, slander, lies, strawman arguments, and other sorts of obfuscation and deception. I tried to appeal to the pride that Atheists traditionally have had in the faculty of Reason, and I reminded them of the spirit to which Atheism has traditionally adhered, namely, a rejection of Sacred Dogmas, in every form.
It was all to no avail. If you want to see a bunch of Atheists behaving like bragging, immature, mean-yet-cowardly, little boys, feel free to check out the thread. It would be amusing, were it not so disheartening. Atheists used to be so much better than those fellows.
Jerry Abbott