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Originally Posted by Jibninjas
When did I distance myself? And you do realize that the bible is pretty big right? And whether or not an ass actually did speak or that this was meant to just convey a point is a pretty minor detail, but either way I did answer the question and told you what I believe, my preface was just in case a theist that is more educated on this particular story wanted to chime. I don't like to be dogmatic unlike many atheists I know.
Let's take it to the other atheists of this forum to see who they feel is dominating this little discussion between us.
So atheists of RGT who here is dodging responses and direct questions? Who here is resulting to childish tactics to avoid a big boy conversation?
I recently read an
article that included this quotation by Howard Jacobson about Holocaust deniers:
“You will know them because they know more about the Jewish religion than you do. As soon as you meet one of those, and think, by God they’ve got a lot of quotations, by God they know everything about Jews—then that’s what they are. And what cheers me about all this, is that your true anti-Semite, like your true Holocaust denier, is doomed to a kind of Dante-esque hell of living among Jewish things, Jewish books, Jewish artifacts. You can see them in the library, they’ve got the Talmud up here, and they’re burrowing away to find more and more evidence against the Jews. Few Jews live a more perfect scholarly Jewish life.”
Obviously I don't view atheism and Holocaust denial as intellectually on par. I also think the study of religion can be interesting and useful for atheists. But I am always a bit bemused by atheists that try to convince Christians that they should believe something the atheists herself regards as absolutely nuts and probably harmful.