just sad.....USA=the Roman Empire.....just a matter of time.

[ratm1221]

Most reasonable people would regard this as mocking:



Nobody asked you to feel worse about it. Nobody said that one human life is more valuable than another.

It is unusual for pastors to be shot to death in the middle of their sermons, and rather shocking and upsetting for those in attendance. The infrequency with which people walk into churches and kill pastors makes the event newsworthy, though that same infrequency rather belies cool hand's paranoia.

You, meanwhile, took it as an opportunity to bash the victim for his religious beliefs. Most reasonable people would therefore take you to be behaving as a hateful bigot. No matter what word games you try to play hereafter, you look like the stereotypical sneering anti-theist who has an axe to grind, rather than the level-headed rationalist you probably imagine yourself to be.

If you can't take someone mocking something, I think you are in the wrong place buddy. That's all I see here at spurstalk, so you can get down from your soapbox. Mission accomplished. You can go one more day as the tough guy that tells people off on message boards. Save the effort for something else.

[Extra Stout]

If you can't take someone mocking something, I think you are in the wrong place buddy. That's all I see here at spurstalk, so you can get down from your soapbox. Mission accomplished. You can go one more day as the tough guy that tells people off on message boards. Save the effort for something else.

You hate Christians and hate it that people care if one is murdered. You try to dress up your hate as "reason," but you can't hide your true colors. Who needs a soapbox?

People die every day and no one even turns their head. But a pastor is murdered and we are supposed to stop and boo-hoo all day long and write 5,000 news articles about it. This country has gone insane.

This is pretty much the same as saying,

People die every day and no one even turns their head. But a black man is murdered and we are supposed to stop and boo-hoo all day long and write 5,000 news articles about it. This country has gone insane.

Just so we're clear what kind of person you are.

[ratm1221]

Just so everyone knows...

Extra Stout = internet tough guy

...just ask him.

[E20]

lol I wouldn't get into an argument with ES. He has his ways.

[Nbadan]

+1 Good stuff...

[Nbadan]

...by the way, this would be more like Rome if the Serbians, Germanic tribes and every other emerging civilization (market) had invested a nice chunk of their kids future into Rome....

[ratm1221]

A stupid thread deserves stupid posts. This thread wasn't used as sympathy for the victim, but as an example for some kind of conspiracy theory. Apparently, someone with a disease that deteriorates your nervous system kills a pastor and somehow that equates to "everyone is out to get/kill the Christians." As the le of the thread says ...just sad.

[Extra Stout]

...by the way, this would be more like Rome if the Serbians, Germanic tribes and every other emerging civilization (market) had invested a nice chunk of their kids future into Rome....

The USA is like the Roman Empire in reverse -- a bunch of Goths and Celts freaking out about all the Latins who are coming in.

[ratm1221]

People die every day and no one even turns their head. But a black man is murdered and we are supposed to stop and boo-hoo all day long and write 5,000 news articles about it. This country has gone insane.

Just so we're clear what kind of person you are.

From what I got from the story, this wasn't a hate crime. Not all the details are available yet, but so far it just sounds like a man with a gun suffering from a nervous disease. Does that excuse it? No. But does it make it a hate crime because he happened to kill a Christian? I think you are a little paranoid. Most people don't hate Christians. They just want them to stop trying to dictate how everyone else should live. I know not all Christians do that, but a good number do.

[smeagol]

Just so everyone knows...

Extra Stout = internet tough guy

...just ask him.

Off-base comment of the day

[Oh, Gee!!]

I think "just sad" is the actual thread le and the rest is an aside from a crazed-mind.

[Extra Stout]

From what I got from the story, this wasn't a hate crime. Not all the details are available yet, but so far it just sounds like a man with a gun suffering from a nervous disease. Does that excuse it? No. But does it make it a hate crime because he happened to kill a Christian? I think you are a little paranoid. Most people don't hate Christians. They just want them to stop trying to dictate how everyone else should live. I know not all Christians do that, but a good number do.

Strawman. I never claimed it was a hate crime. cool hand is the one screaming about Roman oppression. Everyone knows he's crazy.

[velik_m]

The USA is like the Roman Empire in reverse -- a bunch of Goths and Celts freaking out about all the Latins who are coming in.

[PixelPusher]

The USA is like the Roman Empire in reverse -- a bunch of Goths and Celts freaking out about all the Latins who are coming in.