Darren New wrote:
> Saul Luizaga wrote:
>> This question denotes wisdom because you are willing to search and 
>> learn contrary to Patrick that only writes "you are deluding yourself 
>> you are being a moron, for your own sake STOP!!!".
> 
> Yes. That's why I said I'm an atheist, but not like Patrick. For one 
> thing, I've accepted that irrationality is not always bad.
> 
He is putting words in my mouth and you are letting him? Yeah, I do 
think believers delude themselves, but that is not the same as saying 
that irrationality is always bad. For one, its impossible to avoid 
anyway. My problem is, he seems to want it both ways. To pat you on the 
back for "getting" how irrationality is OK, while claiming to admit that 
we "can" feel things, then insisting that the only reason we can is 
because god is hiding in the closet "prompting" us how to act while we 
are thinking irrationally, or something. The cognitive dissonance 
involved is just more than I am willing to put up with, especially when 
he starts claiming that I don't have friends of family that can "love 
each other like a theist can!" Its especially more than I am willing to 
put up with because..., well, frankly I post a lot of several science 
blogs, and there isn't one argument, assertion, wiggling claim, half 
hearted attempt to seem sympathetic, while not being so, or supposition 
that Saul has come up with that hasn't been tried there, multiple times, 
as though they where all brand new, no one has heard them before, etc.

Heck, at least once a week, sometimes, some new person shows up on some 
blog entry about something, to proclaim, "You all need to read the 
Bible, because you obviously never did before." After the 30th time or 
so, if gets old, and you just want them to come up with something that 
a) is new, and b) hasn't dissolved, at some point into them making the 
same assertions, over and over, while ignoring everything you or anyone 
else in the thread said, as though we all just never heard "them" say it 
the first 2-3 times either. Though, I admit, the funniest ones are the 
ones that we manage to back into a corner, where they admit they believe 
it all due to it being "comforting" to them, but they don't find it 
logical either, as though belief in god is like me deciding not to get 
out of bed when I wake up, and instead deciding to stay under the covers 
for a few more minutes, despite having things I need to do that day.

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