Reply #81: i give up [View All]

[earthlover]

Re-read the quote, and the rest of the post you left out. Yes, I think bashing/condemning others is wrong. And I do think that is a bad thing--that was my point. However, I did not bash you or anyone else, I was trying to point out that many people--on both sides--bash each other instead of trying to express the reasons why they believe as they do. I was called Hitler, a bigot, and accused of saying bad things about people. Whew! I might have received a similar reaction at Liberty University on the other side of the aisle! Perhaps what I said struck a chord in some folks and made them defensive to see how "left meets right" sometimes. Maybe that is why the need to bash me. What I was trying to get across was that, as much as some of us don't like it when the right wingers are self righteous and bash those who disagree with them, some of the folks on the left side do a similar thing. And that is hypocrisy. I have tried to articulate the importance of advocating our own thoughts and use reasoning to support them instead of taking the tack of bashing the other side. I can think of several positive reasons why a person could support his athiesm or his Christianity....and it is NOT necessary to make the point that the other side is wrong, stupid, misguided, deluded, sinful, or brainwashed. Just make your case and let it be, and try not to be arrogant and superior--that is what the Falwell types do that makes me sick, and even sicker when the other side does the same thing.