That which follows is a discussion I had with a certain Neo from the The (pseudo) Skeptic Arena with whom I have had many interactions all of which, including this parsed one, you can find here.
Picking up where we left off, Neo replied
Ken, good to hear from you. What have you got for me this time? Ken wrote: Now, I have attempted to help you before with regards to the disjointed manner in which you reply to statements Ken, you don’t know how much that means to me. Most people don’t give a [****], but as you just admitted, you have attempted to help me. I doubt God will give you much credit for that though (because I think the Big Guy is still pretty pissed at me after all the things I said about Him in my book), but it means a lot to me. which is the same way you deal with the Bible: you disconnect thought that are meant to be connected and thus, take them out of context and then claim that they do not make sense but they does not makes sense because you have segmented them. Ken, you need to calm down. Here’s what you just wrote:
“thought that are meant”
“but they does“
“not makes sense” Ken, I know you are usually better than this, so the only thing I can figure, is that you are really starting to come apart at the seams. Your typing is what one would expect from someone whose fingers are trembling with anger so badly that you can’t see straight. Advice: Calm down, go have a brewski, smoke some dope, have sex with your plastic blowup Betty doll, and then take a nappie. When you have your hysterics under control, change into a fresh diaper, and then you can come back and play. For example, you challenge me thusly, “Ken, produce the quote where I told you to stop it.” But friend, please re-read my statement in the actually connected manner in which I wrote it, “Let us imagine that I am performing some action” which means that it is a gedanken experiment and I followed directly with “You tell me to stop it because it is wrong, bad, evil, immoral, unethical, etc.” Thus, there is no quote, I never claimed that there was and you fail to understand that which I stated: that this was a fictional example. Ken, you missed it, didn’t you? Your entire worldview is “fictional.” (Sports Fans: sometimes, all you have to do is just sit back and watch them set themselves on fire. Ken would have made a great Tibetan Monk). Yet, overall after three full pages worth of font size 10 you still utterly fail to understand how a simple conversation functions and have not even gotten close to replying. Ken, apparently you must have misplaced my last 7 emails. No problem, I have included them below so you can refresh your memory. This is what Atheism has done to you or what you have done with Atheism: you/it cannot justify condemning anything at all, you/it cannot provide the prerequisites of intelligibility, you/it cannot establish any standards of truth, logic or ethics. And yet, you still hold me to those standards. The fact is that you do so because you were created in God’s image Ken, what image is that? Is He white, black, brown, or yellow? Is He tall, short, fat, or skinny? Hey Ken, if I was created in God’s image, how come I’m not … invisible? and this is why you condemn even though you have no viable Atheistic reason for doing so: because God’s law is at work within you. This is also why you demand truth, logic and ethics even though I have asked you time and again (as anyone can see here) to justify your demands and you have yet to even begin to attempt to do so. Ken, I hear what you are saying: you think I’m ignoring you. That hurts me Ken. After 8 emails now, I would have hoped that you would feel differently. So, since you are the one who positively asserts that the Passover events were wrong, bad, evil, immoral, unethical, etc. it is incumbent upon you do give a reason for this. Ken, what in the world possessed you to attempt to defend your God’s murder of innocent children by asking why it was evil? Even Christians are face palming. Little kids are burying their heads. Jesus is puking. The cc list is going nuts. They are all praying for a divine lightning strike on your trailer park. In your deepest delusions, how could you even begin to think that questioning the morality of murdering innocent babies was a good strategy? Dude, you have just given the greatest demonstration in history, of what religion can do to the mind: in your case it has turned it into a quivering mass of useless Jello. So now, we not only have a freak who worships a brutal, butchering monster, but one who doesn’t even comprehend that what his invisible ghost did was wrong. The fact that you could even question that, proves that you cannot discern right from wrong. That inability allows the mentally ill to avoid the death penalty and prison, and instead, be sentenced to an asylum. Hey Ken – if you ever get into trouble with the law (such as trying to kill someone) you can submit these emails as evidence in your defense that you are incapable of telling the difference between right and wrong. Just think Ken, no more begging for quarters and dollar bills – you’ll live comfortably in an institution where you can spend as much time as you want painting pretty pictures. Remember when you tried to defend David Wood, that psychopathic Christian thug who attempted to murder his own father by hitting him repeatedly in the head with a hammer? And now you see no problem with God murdering innocent babies? Dude, you have to be the sickest puppy on the planet. The fact that you can’t grasp the most obvious instances of immorality, and have to demand that people explain it to you, indicates that you are someone who should not be walking around in public … without guards. But I think I may have a solution here: You desperately need money (remember “If you can even spare $1.00 as a donation, please do so: it may not seem like much … it would add up and really, really help “) and most of us could use some entertainment, so why don’t we set you up with David Wood in a cage match? You could both enter the Octagon in brightly colored spandex speedos which will drive the gays wild and ensure that no women will want to watch. And then the two Christians gladiators, one completely devoid of morals, and the other lacking even a meager understanding of morality, could tear into each other. My guess is that by the end of the second round, both of you will be butt naked and the referee couldn’t separate you two with a crowbar. Thus, the reason that Passover events were wrong, bad, evil, immoral, unethical, etc. is ________________________: you fill in the blank and we will take it from there. Ken, ask a 5-year-old, ANY 5-year-old, and they could explain it to you. The saddest part is that … you still wouldn’t get it.neo
Ken Ammi
Well, friend I will admit that I am dyslexic and that English is my second language so if you want to pick on me for grammatical errors fell free. You claim that you have already provided a reason, and not merely an emotive assertion, for concluding that the Passover events were evil: please simply send me the quotations from your previous replies. You claim that I have defended “God’s murder of innocent children by asking why it was evil?” which is a literally incoherent statement. The order of events needs to be: Neo elucidates why it is evil, Ken takes it from there. Since you have not done your part, I have been left with nothing to do. Keep in mind that you are the one that stated, “ANY 5-year-old, and they could explain it to you” so why can you not do so? You claim that I “tried to defend David Wood”: please simply send me the quotations from when I did so. I would imagine that from your perspective this is a case of you asserting that I defended David Wood by asking why his actions were evil. Same as above: you failed to elucidate why it was evil and thus, left me nothing to do—as anyone can read from that exchange here [http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/skeptic-arena-takes-david-wood]. Recall that you wrote, “The world can only hope that people like David Wood, Ken Ammi, and all the other conservative Christians, catch Zika or Malaria and disappear from the face of the Earth…‘You People’ are the most despicable, violent, sub-humans on the planet…”
It is an tragedy that you are so filled with hatred, please reconsider, “God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
While you are at it, see my book Pop-Atheist Bible Expositors starring Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Dan Barker, and Neil deGrasse Tyson and also my book Reasons for Being An Atheist: A Comprehensive Guide
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