Pondering Apologetics ~ Why do all the canvassers have such terrible arguments?

[Jaecp]

This isn't always low educated people, too

The way I first found out that out of town members of the Creation Institute in San Diego used the light rail was because they were passing out those "million dollar bills" to people covered in verses and they all claimed to have advanced degrees.

[Paprika]

From what I've seen, your modus operandi is essentially to repeatedly misconstrue arguments and then launch into an annoying tirade based on said misconstrued arguments. "Hey, look at me, kids! I'm Mr. 'Apparently Incapable of Discerning Between Overblown Emotion and Genuine Biblically-Mandated Empathy and Compassion,' and because of my apparent lack of discernment, today I'm going to endless throw around patronizing buzzwords like "feels" when I see the latter part of my title, and consequently I'm going to make myself seem like a condescending sociopath!"

I strip away deception, distortion and misrepresentation. And to be called a sociopath by a feels-obsessed progressive is a strong indication I'm on the right path.

[Paprika]

This was explicitly about people doing it in person. Saying other people suck too isn't a case, nor is Dawkins an example of a progressive. Go look up senator Warren on anything and you'll find brilliant argument

I am not merely saying other groups suck, but that the average of just about all groups suck, atheists and theists alike, so there's nothing special about most theists sucking, whether in person, online or otherwise.

[Cow Poke]

I am not merely saying other groups suck, but that the average of just about all groups suck, atheists and theists alike, so there's nothing special about most theists sucking, whether in person, online or otherwise.

I think I'll try reading this again, in the morning, after I've had my coffee.

[Jaecp]

I am not merely saying other groups suck, but that the average of just about all groups suck, atheists and theists alike, so there's nothing special about most theists sucking, whether in person, online or otherwise.

Not all groups so consistently suck in person.

Respond to the thread or scram, last warning

[Zymologist]

Not all groups so consistently suck in person.

Respond to the thread or scram, last warning

What would be an example of a group that doesn't consistently suck in person?

[Jaecp]

Jews, probably, since they don't evangelize.

[Paprika]

Not all groups so consistently suck in person.

Respond to the thread or scram, last warning

I am responding to the thread: the phenomenon of religious people sucking intellectually during canvassing is shed light upon by the fact that the average person sucks intellectually.

You are of course free to disagree with the latter claim.

[fm93]

I strip away deception, distortion and misrepresentation. And to be called a sociopath by a feels-obsessed progressive

Precisely what I meant by "misconstrue."

[KingsGambit]

Jews, probably, since they don't evangelize.

So the real issue here is evangelizing and not the arguments themselves?

[Paprika]

Precisely what I meant by "misconstrue."

Right, so you equate 'offensive' with 'morally wrong' and 'misconstrue' with 'cutting through all the obscuring crap'.

Then you wonder why posting using such an approach - at best highly deluded, at worst highly deceptive - gets a strong reaction from others and myself.

[Paprika]

So the real issue here is evangelizing and not the arguments themselves?

As evidenced by their postings online most atheists would suck [intellectually] if they deigned to evangelise in person.

[fm93]

Right, so you equate 'offensive' with 'morally wrong'

But I did no such thing, as I've explained in that other thread. That which is offensive isn't always morally wrong, but that which is morally wrong often tends to be offensive.

[Jaecp]

So the real issue here is evangelizing and not the arguments themselves?

No, it's both and they're connected.

Some people seem not to have read the OP, which is explicitly about in person evangelism. If one doesn't engage in it then we wouldn't have examples of them sucking at it, ya?

[Jaecp]

As evidenced by their postings online most atheists would suck [intellectually] if they deigned to evangelise in person.

Cool, so atheists show wisdom through temperance, wheewhee

Get out of my thread