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Lies About What I Do from the All-Too-Common \u201cAngry Atheist\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"AngryMan8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[public domain \/ Pixabay<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Pete Migdale was banned from my Patheos blog, which doesn\u2019t allow personal insults. I think you\u2019ll see why in the following tirades that he has launched in the last 12 hours, on an extremely popular atheist post: Jesus never existed<\/a>. It also illustrates why I only rarely comment in atheist venues, because they freely allow garbage like this:<\/p>\n

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Wow! Dave the intellectual coward emerges from his \u201cLove me or Be banned\u201d domain to post a comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t discuss, you demand respect for absurd positions and anyone who calls you for your nonsense is deleted, you can\u2019t take being bettered.<\/span>
\nYou are one of the most experienced onanists I have ever encountered.<\/span><\/p>\n

No point going there, make a clever comment and you will be banned and blocked. He is a pathetic, little, power freak who can\u2019t cope with reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Dave is a very average catholic apologist who, on his own blog, blocks anyone who derails his little red wagon. Typical catholic, silence that which you can\u2019t rebut.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is annoying in particular about him that he initially appears interested in discourse then he just stops when challenged.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is very self aggrandising, condescending and arrogant. He is deserving of ridicule whenever you catch him \u201cout in the wild\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest part is that anyone can see that I am debating atheists almost on a daily basis (i.e., the ones who aren\u2019t exhibiting relentless verbal diarrhea). Anyone can see that by going to my blog<\/a> and searching \u201catheism\u201d on the sidebar. Yesterday I posted a\u00a0discussion with atheist<\/a> and noted my dinner with six atheists in June<\/a> (which we all enjoyed). The day before I posted two more debates \/ dialogues with atheists or agnostics [one<\/a> \/ two<\/a>].<\/p>\n

In fact, I was debating in the last few days<\/a> one of the very people that Pete was \u201ctalking\u201d to in this thread \u201cTheMarsCydonia\u201d]. LOL<\/p>\n

So go figure . . . But we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that an atheist like this clown would be spreading slanderous myths, legends, and fables, since he is participating on a ludicrous thread called \u201cJesus never existed.\u201d<\/a> One myth or Lie is as good as the next, right?<\/p>\n

I went over to this thread and posted the following fact-encumbered comment:<\/p>\n

Nice try, Pete.<\/p>\n

1. I\u2019ve been debating Mars over the last few days on my site. He\u2019s still there, as he has been for months, and not banned.<\/p>\n

2. I hardly ever participate in atheist venues because they allow fools like you to pollute them, without any censure at all.<\/p>\n

3. Me and Mars had this discussion in a different form in a dialogue which was posted on my site<\/a> two days ago.<\/p>\n

So much for all your lies. That\u2019s odd behavior if (as you fancy) I supposedly avoid all sentient, breathing atheists like the plague, am scared to death of them, and flee every possible intellectual encounter in abject terror, since I am invariably \u201cbested\u201d etc.<\/p>\n

The truth of the matter is that I greatly enjoy debating atheists and have been doing so almost on a daily basis at Patheos, and online generally for 17 years: including several professors, such as philosopher\u00a0Dr. Theodore Drange<\/a>, or lawyers<\/a>, or leading figures like John Loftus<\/a> of Debunking Christianity<\/em><\/a>\u00a0infamy and Amazon bestsellers<\/a>, etc. [one<\/a> \/ two<\/a> \/ three<\/a> \/ four<\/a> \/ five<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Anyone can readily see the amount of interaction by searching \u201catheism\u201d on the sidebar on my blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But fools like you, with verbal diarrhea, are not allowed on my site because we want constructive, amiable dialogue to take place.<\/p>\n

So lie away; you only confirm the wisdom of banning you in the first place. You came onto my site with almost exclusively insults (just as you spew here) and so, quite consistently with my posted discussion policy, I hit the ejector seat.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the opportunity to set the record straight and for more exposure! I do appreciate that.<\/p>\n

He replied in that thread, with this:<\/p>\n

LIAR, but I expected that you coward.\u00a0You are an intellectual prawn!<\/span><\/p>\n

Literally, all this clown does is insult Christians in his comments. He\u2019s like an atheist Don Rickles. You can see that in the record of his comments on Disqus<\/a>. Apparently he thinks it is \u201cfree speech\u201d to allow his horse manure to be freely aired in a Christian venue. We must do it under pain of being mocked and ridiculed and lied about as cowards, etc., if we don\u2019t. That game doesn\u2019t work with me. Moreover, it\u2019s widely acknowledged by all (Christian and atheist alike) that trolling is unethical online conduct.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty ironically humorous, too, that in one of the recent dialogues<\/a> mentioned above, with the agnostic academic JD Eveland<\/a>, with whom I\u2019ve now had many enjoyable and amiable dialogues, JD wrote in the combox this very day: \u201cA very nice job of weaving together a couple of different strands here, Dave! You\u2019ve certainly been quite fair to my arguments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So, as always, folks either \u201clove\u201d me or despise me. It\u2019s always been that way, always will be. It\u2019s the lot of the apologist who dares to take a stand on truth (in my case, defense of Catholicism and general Christianity. When you take a stand and offer any critiques, this will be the dual reaction. Many will detest you; others will respect that you are a conscientious thinker, who tries to be charitable to opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Irrational opposition should never come as a surprise to the Christian, about whom Jesus said, \u201cyou will be hated by all for my name\u2019s sake.\u201d So why would anyone be shocked when this happens? I would say that our Christianity is highly suspect if it does not<\/em>\u00a0ever happen, or only rarely so. Christianity ain\u2019t a popularity contest, and Christian apologetics certainly<\/em> is not!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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