Posted: May 30, 2014 9:22 am
JTRizzle wrote:
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.
Ahhh, and here we go: you fail to recognise the impact of the aggression he offered me, and you double down on that by insulting me personally. You just don't seem to have any conception of why. Various theists (certainly not all) offer all sorts of insults - other examples include but are certainly not limited to: homophobic rationalisations, justifications for biblical genocide, allusions that atheists are less than fully human. Trust me, there's plenty of insults to go around.
Except you automatically arrange to win the "oh atheists are so prone to insulting us poor innocent Christians" because you only acknowledge what you personally regard as insulting. That's extremely fucking rude, actually.