Given this in his OP "I'm hoping to show up to the lecture and start raising hell." it doesn't sound like he wants to participate in a polite question and answer session.
If she has a sort of question and answer session during the course of the seminar, and he asks something during that... how is he going outside the bounds of what's socially acceptable? Because he's asking a question meant to bring discourse? Because he went without caring about the actual topic and only meaning to bring shame upon someone who believes in a sham?
Maybe I get a different vision of what the intent is of this as I assume most people think of the OP as wanting to heckle the speaker. Although, that might make for an interesting YouTube video. :biggrin:
Given this in his OP "I'm hoping to show up to the lecture and start raising hell." it doesn't sound like he wants to participate in a polite question and answer session.
I wonder if you or anyone else actually looked up who this woman is? Turns out she is a Roman Catholic pro life activist, not a fundamentalist. So far I can find no hate speech from her regarding atheists or scientists nor do I see her taking any stated position on evolution but since she is a practicing Roman Catholic and the Catholic Church itself accepts the theory of evolution that does not surprise me.
Good thing I was pointing out the the wrong-hotheadedness of using Christian values to judge people that are not part of the church.
Some of that "free speech" is honest-to-God hate-speech against atheists and scientists. Not saying she doesn't have a right to speak it, but he also has an obligation to speak out against it.
Ah crap, I must've really pissed off god - yesterday I put the pair of 2000-Flushes tablets into the toilet tank (blue + bleach), but when I headed into the bathroom a few minutes ago, the toilet water was red! It's the modern day plagues! Red toilet water! Loss of cellphone reception! Ungrounded outlets! Unbound shoe heels!
Time to go repent or something, right?
(Seriously though, why would the water have turned red? The water in the tank is still blue. Crab people?)
I expected some type of response like this.No, but I think you need to see a gastrointerologist, stat.
/threadthis.
not only that, but he hasn't even listened to anything she's saying in order to decide what to troll her about. he's just in it because he thinks she's a fundamentalist christian and thinks it's cool to be a douchebag who thinks he's funny back in high school.
like i said before, she's speaking on a topic she feels strongly about and has, what she feels is, sufficient scientific data to help support her beliefs. she's just expressing a theory. you really want to waste your time trying to troll someone who's humbly offering her theory?
what's wrong with a person trying to marry science and faith? why bash them? she's trying to seek her own personal truth with evidence and share it with others who're willing to listen. that doesn't sound like christian fundamentalism to me... it sounds like a strong christian who's trying to validate her beliefs with scientific evidence.
it's better than having someone who's spouting off religious crap with no basis or potential scientific support whatsoever.
I almost feel to go to the US and explain to religious people how incredibly compatible religious texts can be with evolution. It is just explaining to people how to translate the supernatural to nature and how to not literally read texts.
As an atheist, atheists piss me off. I imagine many Christians feel the same way about fellow Christians.
Give him a break guys, it's not his fault, he is most likely a lefty (liberal). It's in the nature of the lefty to protest against anybody who doesn't think like them.
You OK cheesehead?
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No, you quoted me and directly under that quote was this:
Not quite sure how else I am supposed to take that other than you implying that she is somehow engaging in what you consider to be hate speech. Your other point regarding Christian values was in a separate section following that starting with "For future trolling of Christians, ask:" which one would presume was aimed at the OP since he is the one that wanted to troll someone in the first place.
RCC is anti-gay in a highly un-christian, out right hateful, way; that you have trouble linking the two is my error in expression.