It's kind of funny for a viciously anti-Christian atheist to be whining about me calling out the supporters of the serial pedophile predator who claim to support him on the basis of Christianity, only it's my experience that atheists would hate nothing more than for Christians to act on the basis of the teachings of Jesus and his apostles in the New Testament. If Christians, uniformly, acted out of the teachings and commandments set out by Jesus as defining his followers Christianity would be bullet proof, it would probably be the most widely admired and supported entity in human culture. That Christians have not been wildly successful in making good on their professions of faith is not an indictment of the Gospel, it's an admission that Christians are as able to be fallible human beings as any and that to profess Christianity is no guarantee that the person who says it the loudest isn't going to be, in reality, a totally sworn servant of Mammon and the Antichrist, as described in the last book of the New Testament.
I would rather be on the same side of this argument as Reverend William Barber who noted that the "Christians" who were at that Roy Moore cult meeting were not Christians, that their statements equating Moore with religious figures are heretical.
The thing that such atheists fear the most would be the possibility of Christians acting like Christians are supposed to act, it would totally deflate their campaign.
"The thing that such atheists fear the most would be the possibility of Christians acting like Christians are supposed to act, it would totally deflate their campaign."
ReplyDeleteWow. That makes as much sense as saying "you'd be cute if you had a different face."
While it's a rather silly insult, it doesn't constitute a coherent refutation of what I said.
DeleteConsidering how many times you've shared your mug over the years, a. you've got nothing to stand on, though it's apprent someone stood on yours, b. I want to see that one where I mistook your silly beret for a cheap wig again. The one with the two younger ladies who looked like social workers doing an incompetent adult in danger intervention. That was a hoot.
BTW, Sparkles -- get back to me when you put up a picture of yourself.
ReplyDeleteFools' faces often show up in public places.
DeleteWhich would account for why I know what you look like.
Like I said, put up a picture of yourself. I suspect you look like some kind of demented death dwarf, but you can clear that up.
DeletePut up a contemporary picture, Sparkles. We'll go head to head.
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"demented death dwarf" and this from the guy who lamented that he would never get to make it with a "goth chick". I told you there were probably some necrophiles who would probably do you. If you could keep your mouth shut long enough
DeleteIf it were me against you, it would be head to empty head. If yours weren't attached it would float off like a helium balloon.
Delete"That Christians have not been wildly successful in making good on their professions of faith is not an indictment of the Gospel, it's an admission that Christians are as able to be fallible human beings as any and that to profess Christianity is no guarantee that the person who says it the loudest isn't going to be, in reality, a totally sworn servant of Mammon and the Antichrist, as described in the last book of the New Testament. "
ReplyDeleteBut of course you can't be moral without religion. Because religious people are by definition moral.
Damn, Sparky, that's so cute.
:-)
I didn't say you can't be moral without religion, I have said that you couldn't come up with a coherent assertion of the reality of moral absolutes on the basis of atheism, especially when it's materialist atheism.
DeleteTell me where you can find moral absolutes in your framing, Simps. Something that someone sharing your um.... well, what substitutes as intellectual framing for you wouldn't just be able to say, "who says" or "I don't care" or "Hey, I'll be as big of an asshole as I fee like being", you know that last one being your actual framing instead of it presented as an, uh, "intellectual" stand
Anyone who read my posts, just today, would know I never said anything remotely like "religious people are by definition moral". I said exactly the opposite of that about the whited sepulchers around Roy Moore.
You know, Stupy, you are so stupid that you can't even lie intelligently.
You are to Eschaton what Louis Gohmert is to Texas.
DeletePut up a photo, Sparkles.
ReplyDeleteStupy, I don't have pictures of my self posted all over the house, I'm not like you and Donald Trump.
DeleteOh, go scan some old b&w from the 70s Sparky. I'll go head to head with you.
ReplyDeleteWhat are yours, sepia?
DeleteI don't have pictures of me around the house. You imagine everyone has your self-fixation, not everyone does.
Take a selfie tonight, you gutless piece of shit.
DeleteAnd put it up.
Or fuck that, hire a stylist and a pro photographer.
I do not have a camera and only total dorks take selfies, you must have terabytes of them.
DeleteOh, and I cut my own hair. Have for decades.
DeleteYou cut your own hair? That's like a lawyer who represents himself.
DeleteI.e., an idiot.
As I recall Beyonce said she cuts her own hair and I've seen your hair, you ever hear the one about people who live in glass houses who throw stones?
DeleteI have very short hair, it's very easy to cut, no fuss, no expense. And unlike you, I've still got plenty.
And, no, I wasn't talking about your ears and nose.
DeleteSo I was right. You're a gutless piece of shit.
ReplyDeleteHere's a clue, Sparkles -- one of your mythical piano students can take a picture of you. And post it online.
Do it, McCarthy. Or shut your sexist yap about other people's actractiveness.
Are you so mentally deficient that you don't recall it was YOU who commented on what you imagine my appearance to be? I wasn't aware that you constituted a gender, what are you, the world's first MEmale?
DeletePost a picture, Sparky. Or shut the fuck up._
ReplyDeleteOooh, you gowin to pout?
DeleteImagine yourself, how you look.... Now that you're occupied for the rest of the evening.....
Take a picture of yourself and post it, you cowardly bag of offal.
DeleteOr shut the fuck up.
"As I recall Beyonce said she cuts her own hair"
DeleteOooh, a pop culture reference. You hate pop culture.
Try again, shithead.
You claiming I look like you? Naw.
DeleteWhere's the photo, Sparkles?
ReplyDeleteIt being with you, I'll cite scripture, do not cast your pearls before swine.
DeleteUnlike you, I don't hate things without knowing about them, first. Beyonce is hardly avoidable. She's got talent, I don't especially like her music or her act but she's got ability and beauty, lots of both.
ReplyDeleteYou don't hate things without knowing about them? Says Mr. Rock-and-roll is crap?
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Rock and roll is crap. It is what's left when you take everything interesting out of the blues, and less.
DeletePhoto, Sparky. Now.
ReplyDeleteOk, now you're just making me laugh. You sound like Donald Trump demanding that Hillary Clinton produce the e-mails. I feel kind of ashamed taking such pleasure in your display of stupidity.
DeleteUh, Stupy, I'm not going to post that url, it looks dodgy to me and I don't want anyone to risk looking it up.
ReplyDeleteC'mon, shithead.
ReplyDeleteTake a picture of yourself and post it
Then Ill send one of mine from the same time frame. And you can vet it any way you like,.
What the fuck are you waiting for, coward?
I've seen your picture, my vet would have recommended you be put to sleep
DeleteWhere's a picture, Sparky? What the fuck are you being so chickenshit about?
ReplyDeleteHaving seen your picture I can understand why you might think it's an act of bravery to post one of yourself, or you would if you weren't the Trumpian sort.
DeleteYour picture, shithead. Put up or shut the fuck up.
ReplyDeleteAgain, Simps, I don't resemble you.
DeleteCoward. Put up or shut up.
ReplyDeleteAs Mae West said, "I don't give out samples" as Mink Stole as Taffy Davenport said, "Not if I was suffocating and your balls had oxygen in them".
DeleteSo you're admitting that you're as sexy as a pissing toad?
ReplyDeleteGood for you!!!!
I'd say that was lame of you but it's really more like desperate. No better make that hysterically panicked.
DeletePhoto Sparkles. Or shut up.
ReplyDelete:-)
It's so cute when you figure you can come here, make demands of me and tell me to shut up on my own blog. You are as delusional as Trump is, in your own, very, very tiny handed way.
DeleteA photo, Sparky. And let's compare hands, if you're that stupid.
ReplyDelete:-)
Oh, I'm ready to stipulate you have smaller ones. I've actually got rather large hands, though it's due mostly to a lifetime of playing piano. You didn't think I was making that superstitious comparison of hand size with genital endowment? I mean, sure I can play 10ths in a lot of places but those 15ths in Berio's Wasserklavier, no, I can't play those unbroken.
DeleteBig hands, big gloves. Proves nothing.
ReplyDelete:-)
Photo them, Sparkles. You're completely full of shit otherwise.
I feel no need to prove anything, you seem to be able to prove only that you're an ass. Argumentation to all other ends eludes you.
DeleteAnd no one plays piano in gloves except idiots who can't play the piano.
DeleteYou're insane.
DeleteBut that said, post a photo of yourself. Otherwise you're a cowardly shithead who makes sexist comments about other people's attractiveness.
Oh well, that's what you are no matter what you do, but still....
The only thing I noted is that Beyonce is beautiful and that was only in regard to her saying that she cuts her own hair obviously to good effect. That's about as sexist as saying she's smart. Or did you have something else in mind, in your mindless mind.
DeleteSo you didn’t get the big hands/gloves joke? HAHAHAHAHAH Quel surprise.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, post a photo of yourself, you gutless schmuck, or shut up about other people’s looks.
The only joke is in your glove.
DeleteIt would be reassuring to me that the only things you've got on me are things you make up and peddle at Duncan's blog. I notice he's going through the motions of writing a bit for it and he can't get his devoted regulars to read them and talk about them. He should put more effort in it and beg Echidne or Digby or someone to post his pieces on their blogs, where people who are literate go to read things. The leisure class at his blog really are like the regulars at Harry Hope's bar, they're not interested in anything but more of the same, every day, without variation, without challenge with nothing they have to read or think about much. That's why you fit in so seamlessly there, except when you try to lecture the gals on what they should think.
Nice way to avoid the issue.
ReplyDeletePost a photo, schmuck.
The issue is you are an idiot who lies about me with Duncan's knowledge on Duncan's blog and Duncan Black is that most absurd and ridiculou of all figures, a has-been blogger who gave up more than a decade ago. I'm not surprised, he's all credentials and no cred. Well, he's got you so he's got crud, too.
DeleteI always liked this quote from Chesterton: "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been examined, found too difficult and tried."
ReplyDeleteShould that last word read "untried"?
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