Somewhere, you and I got our wires crossed. I did not do the things you have accused me of, I do not feel the way you seem to think I feel, and I am not trying to do the things you seem to think I am trying to do.

You have said that one should live and let live, yet you are battering me for expressing my opinions in the same manner which you are doing. My very first post on this topic was a simple question regarding the supernatural, and it was responded to with accusations of spilling poison and being upset about what was done. I think its great that people got together to do this, no matter who they credit for it, and no matter what you claim I think about it. I’m sorry we got off on the wrong foot over this, and that is a sincere apology. You sound like someone I would like in real life.

He signs all his letters from Delta, so why not acknowledge that this is a different Bob from any place else?

Feel Better?

Mr. Laitres, I keep asking the question of you, and you keep not answering.

What institutions of higher learning have you attended, and what specific degrees have you earned that allows you to feel smarter than anybody else?

And, since you have been known to be less than honest in your posts, I require names and dates for verification.

By your continued refusal to answer I can only surmise that you are a self taught individual that is incapable honest, intelligent conversation and need to rely on childish attempts at character assassination and belittling others to make yourself seem more intelligent than you actually are.

If facts that prove your positions false arise, you feel perfectly within your rights to discount any facts that you choose to not believe, then base your arguments on your self imposed ignorance of those facts.

But when the local churches banded together and spent a weekend helping other people, dear ol’ Scott felt the need to question it.

It’s a question that should never have been asked, and it was not, as he now suggests, and innocent desire to learn, but a deep rooted desire to slam religions.

One of the above posters maintains that he has never “seen” either agnostic, atheist, etc. volunteer as does the “Christian” community. The individual has apparently not been around much. The fact that he doesn’t “see” it, may not be that other than “Christians” don’t do good works, it may be that they don’t spend as much time as do “Christians” boasting about it that, in order to be “perceived” as charitable and doing good works. Some of us have not lived such sheltered lives, and therefore are not so parochial in our views.

Non-religious do-gooding just tend to be more decentralized. Religion, or lack of it doesn’t come up in conversation and generally no press releases are issued.

Atheism is not a banner under which people march. People do not do things “in the name of atheism.” What you’re asking for is like asking people to get together to not collect stamps.

Look at Bill Gates. He has donated billions of dollars to charities. He is also an atheist. He does not donate “in the name of atheism.” He does it because it is the right thing to do. People aren’t going to make news as “atheist volunteers” because that is not why they do it.

Its apples and oranges.