Sometimes, no comments are needed.

[Stinky The Clown]

[GoneOffShore]

1. Brilliant!

[Stinky The Clown]

2. The book is real. It was on the soopermarket checkout magazine rack yesterday.

[zabet]

3. Just my personal opinion....

not all people who choose to believe in God are idiots. I am also curious as to why it is so common on this board to mock Christianity but do not see the other religions mocked the same way.....do they not all believe in something that cannot be proven? What makes Christianity more 'stupid' than being Muslim or Jewish or any other for that matter? :shrug:

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. I have friends on DU who are Christian

and even though I'm an atheist I cannot imagine mocking them.

[zabet]

7. That is exactly my point.....

I would no more mock my Christian family members than I would my family members that are Hindu. It is THEIR choice and THEIR belief system.

[Silent3]

21. Not that believers determined to take offense care...

...but there is a difference between mocking particular beliefs and mocking the people who hold them. I see much more of the former and not so much of the latter around here.

[spanone]

5. i mock all religions

[hobbit709]

10. +1

When viewed from the outside, ALL religions appear equally silly.

[donco6]

I'm an equal-opportunity mocker. n/t

[pipi_k]

6. I think just for clarification...

The book title isn't saying that people who believe in god are idiots.

The book title is directed, in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way, toward people who FEEL they are idiots because they don't know much about god and faith.


It's the same as for any of the "Idiot's Guide To....." books.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. That part I'm jiggy with

But it's the OPs intent that I find bewildering.

[pipi_k]

11. I don't know about the intent, either, so I'm not even going to speculate...

I mean, there are so many ways this could be taken...


:shrug:

[Stinky The Clown]

13. And you know my intent .... how, exactly? Divine intervention?

It was posted without comment. Then heavy handedly moved here, to this forum that has a particular population that will flame (stone?) this thread to death.

Fact: The fucking book exists and is aimed at idiots. In case English is unclear to you, it does NOT say Christians are idiots.

Get over yourself.

[struggle4progress]

15. It wasn't posted "without comment" but rather with the comment "No comments .. needed"

[Stinky The Clown]

16. And you construe from that ..... what? Your own spin through your own filter is what.

[struggle4progress]

17. Oh, don't be coy

[Stinky The Clown]

18. That wasn't coy. That was right straight at you.

You have no idea what my intent was. You applied your bias and your filter and your notion based on your experiences.

Maybe I *did* mean to mock. But you don't know that. You can only assume it until I tell you otherwise.

[struggle4progress]

24. do feel free to explain yourself, if you feel misunderstood

perhaps you are incredibly impressed by the cover artwork?
perhaps you find this a wonderful book that you hope everyone will read?
perhaps you bought stock in the company and want people to buy the product?
perhaps you thought a bit of flamebait would provide some nice sturm-und-drang?

[Stinky The Clown]

25. Okay ... you have your view. I have my view.

Your mind is set in stone.

I know what is in my mind.

We will never find common ground on this topic. In view of that, I'm done engaging you on this topic.

[Jokerman]

19. LOL!

So if "no comment" = "comment" is that the same as atheism = religion?

Just wondering how far this twisted bit of logic goes.

[struggle4progress]

22. how very clever you are

[zabet]

9. Thank you.

You are correct. I just see so much on DU about the 'stupidity' of people who believe in God. Like anything else or like any other religion, there are those that go to extremes but, the vast majority do not.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Someone saw a market for the book and wrote it. Why complain that Christians are persecuted?

Here's a counter to your premise:



As in the OP, the book is real:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ourl=The-Complete-Idiots-Guide-to-Understanding-Islam%2FYahiya-Emerick&ISBN=9781101199244&cm_mmc=Google%20Product%20Search-_-Q000000630-_-The%20Complete%20Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Understanding%20Islam-_-9781101199244

[Enthusiast]

23. They probably have

a complete IDIOT'S guide to Dummies. Or maybe they should.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. They have them for every other subject, so why not?

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. If it makes you feel better, I mock ALL religions -

except, possibly, Buddhism which is kind of squishy in fitting the definition.

If the focus is on afterlife, ghosts, supreme beings - yeah, they're all nonsense.

[dmallind]

29. Maybe it's my eyesight but the book does not specify Xian faith to me.. NT

[Scuba]

14. I mock Christianity, quietly criticize other religions. Why the dichotomy? I used to be Christian.

[TheDebbieDee]

27. I believe in God! I just don't believe in all these sacred tomes

to which people cleave and on which assorted religions are based.

As far as I'm concerned, God has not yet communicated to us what he/she wants from us. But somehow, I DO know that he/she wants us to be good to each other and treat each other with respect.

[mgc1961]

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