"Matt Silberstein" <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nos...@ix.netcom.com> wrote
in messagenews:ck7793pnmgdmvo44osora6g3st5qel2kfg@4ax.com...

I see in this group a fair amount of what seems to be personal anger
from atheists to theists.

D'oh! What do you want for nothing? Cretins come here to spread
*****, and
that pisses people off.

Of course not all atheists express or
display that anger, but it sure seems that some do. To those who

think

they might be in that group (either angry or acting in ways that I
might see as angry) I have a question. Have you have had any good
experiences with theists in something approaching a "theistic"
environment. That is, for example, have you ever had a nice

Christmas

dinner with believing Christians or a Shabbat dinner with some Jews?

What's it to you?

There are well-meaning, but naive theists, and there are corrupt
theists. You, my fine feathered fiend, fall into the latter category.
You aren't here to learn, or to hold civil conversation with atheists.
Rather, you're here to argue with atheists...especially if it gives
you another chance to defend Israel (the only country I've been to
that has men hanging around with automatic weapons on the streets).
It's ridiculous. You're ridiculous. If you were at least
entertaining, you might get more positive responses.

I am not asking for arguments here, just personal experience.

Wassamatter, ain't got none of your own?

Please don't try to convince me that g(G)od(s) don't exists, I

really don't

care about anyone's belief in g(G)od(s).

If you don't want to hear it, go elsewhere. Idiot.

Please don't tell me how Church and State need to be separated, I

agree.

Not for the same reasons that we feel that way.

What I am interested
in is the personal level. I know that I have had good, even
delightful, times with believers of various religions in various
religious settings. I wonder if this, or the lack of such

experiences,

might explain some things I have seen here.

What gives you the idea that anything here needs any explanation?
What makes it any of your business? Why don't you go back to hanging
out on street corners, rent boy?