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So... You're just walking down the street, minding your own business and every other day out of the blue someone walks up to you and tells you you're going to hell?
As I said, it's gotten better in the last few years for reasons I don't know. There was a time though, when yes, that was the case. People preach at parks and street-corners. If you walk by them, they will often call you out, with either a description of you or a gesture towards you. If you bother to discuss anything with them, well then you're just asking for it.
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How about you actually tell us what you are doing that evokes such a response?
Dressing provocatively, I suppose. Maybe I just shouldn't be walking those street corners in the broad light of day.
See, I'm not convinced that you have even the slightest clue what a "fundie" is, or can be. I think that you've been so sheltered by your relative location when growing up that you'll consider anyone who actually takes religion seriously in their lives a fundie, because you have never seen, and apparently can't even
consider, the extremes it can be taken to. I didn't expect you to say "yes" when I asked if you could walk downtown without being accosted by a doomsayer. I didn't actually expect that question to fly, and I was going to appeal to your sense of memory, trying to get you to remember something that you may have just forgotten about a demographic within your party.
But apparently you're actually truly and earnestly ignorant to it, and while there is nothing wrong with that in principle, you don't seem very keen on learning either.
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But that's a far cry from being able to, isn't it? You get that you're comparing something which *is* happening to something you think might happen, if a tiny percentage of the population somehow gains power and re-writes the constitution. And people say I engage in slippery slope fallacies...
This is not my judgment you idiot. Let me remind you of how much this is not my judgment, nor my point: "Does this mean that the party is entirely religious dogmatism? No." Rephrased: Is it the case that militant, religious dogmatism influences the republican party at large? Probably to only a small extent. My judgment is that you are
ignorant of certain facets of your
own party, and thus should shut the **** up about what you think it means to be a Liberal when you are talking to someone who is trying to educate you on what it means to be a Liberal, because whenever you do something like that, you are being approximately as stupid as I would be if I could abstract that all republicans were bible toting *****, from my personal anecdotes, because I'm not. Is that clear yet? Do you realize that the purpose for talking to you about militant bible thumpers is not to say that all republicans are like that?
I don't have any idea why you would begin to think that, if I mention an anecdote or personal experience, that I would try to apply that to a categorical judgment of principle. The only reason I could think of is if you just totally don't realize how different types of evidence are applicable to different types of points.
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No matter how many conservatives happen to be religious, and no matter how many of those would like to live in a world in which everyone is of their faith, the method they'd use to try to accomplish that would be to talk to people and try to sway them to their beliefs. Which is an expression of free speech and nothing to fear.
Yes, you see the reason I ignored this fraudulent, simplistic, biased, and extremely childish characterization of methodology is mainly because it is fraudulent, simplistic, biased, and extremely childish. It's also false.
That you believe that there are no conservatives who would not use simply free speech to express or fight for their goals is more naive and self-delusional than when I start going on about universal compassion for prisoners, or the reduction of practical application and employment in education. Are you six years old? Can you please stop being a stupid child? It's kind of empathically embarrassing to see a grown man delude himself through so many totally illegitimate lines in the sand.