Posted: May 30, 2014 8:50 am
virphen wrote:JTRizzle wrote:
i have had this discussion many times with the few fundamentalist friends i have. its funny how many less insults are thrown around in arguments about religion among the different sects of Christianity than in arguments between Christians and atheists. a lot less sarcasm too...
It might be true, but then also you might be unaware of the offensiveness of some of the material that flows in the other direction. I remember an instance last year of a street preacher on a street corner. I'd normally ignore the type, but hearing his content and realising I was passing someone threatening with me with eternal torture for not doing what he wanted let to a very loud "fuck off" in his direction, and I really can't think of anything I have ever said to anyone, ever, in my entire life, that could be anywhere near as offensive as that concept is to me, regardless of the absence of profanity on his part.
the man may not have been purposefully insulting you, but you purposefully insulted him. that is not very reasonable. i am insulted when someone burps loudly and purposefully when he is eating at my table. if i am ever eating with a person from a certain part of the middle east (i can't remember where) then i would not be insulted, because i would know the man was not trying to insult me. if i had a child who was just learning to speak and he called me a fucktard, i would find the comment insulting, but i would not feel i was insulted by the child because he had no idea he was insulting me. if the preacher was purposefully insulting you than he was wrong and you sunk down to his level.