"You know that's impossible right?" Explaining to kids the comments of creationists.

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NP here. ASSHOLE, will you stop ganging up on the Reform Jew poster? On any given thread, once a "voice" has been identified, all the dcum bullies start ganging up on them. First, one of you tried to call her some atheist poster from the past. You were wrong. Then you kept attributing posts that didn't belong to the Reform Jew to him or her. Again wrong. Stop being a bully, it's tiresome.

Let me get this straight: it's not OK to gang up on a Reform Jew for behaving badly, but it's perfectly fair to gang up on the Catholic poster (I'm not her) with her sentimental posts, and it would be fun if we all bully her together. Do I have that right? Thanks for clearing that up!

At least, the Reform Jew comes back to answer questions. If you're going to take up half a page, take the time to engage in the conversation. Have you ever tried to have a discussion with Catholic Lady? She can post page after page on philosophy, the Pope, etc. without ever answering the question posed.

Also, no one said the kinds of things that are said about Reform Jew. She was accused for months of authoring every negative/slightly disagreeing post about religion. It was like a paranoid witch hunt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

NP here. ASSHOLE, will you stop ganging up on the Reform Jew poster? On any given thread, once a "voice" has been identified, all the dcum bullies start ganging up on them. First, one of you tried to call her some atheist poster from the past. You were wrong. Then you kept attributing posts that didn't belong to the Reform Jew to him or her. Again wrong. Stop being a bully, it's tiresome.

Let me get this straight: it's not OK to gang up on a Reform Jew for behaving badly, but it's perfectly fair to gang up on the Catholic poster (I'm not her) with her sentimental posts, and it would be fun if we all bully her together. Do I have that right? Thanks for clearing that up!

At least, the Reform Jew comes back to answer questions. If you're going to take up half a page, take the time to engage in the conversation. Have you ever tried to have a discussion with Catholic Lady? She can post page after page on philosophy, the Pope, etc. without ever answering the question posed.

Also, no one said the kinds of things that are said about Reform Jew. She was accused for months of authoring every negative/slightly disagreeing post about religion. It was like a paranoid witch hunt.

For months? Did we miss another thread? This thread has only been around for a week or so. If there's history here, it would help to know it. Also, there has just got to be more than one Reform Jew on DCUM, so perhaps there's some mistaken identities here?

I cannot agree that it's OK to beat up on Catholic Lady -- just because she sees things differently from you (or me, for that matter). In any case, I've seen her answer questions. I suppose her answers aren't satisfactory, in that they're not what you or I would want her to say. But she's different from us. I'm OK with that, and it's not a threat to me. Doesn't make me want to go out and beat her up - or condone it when others beat her up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

NP here. ASSHOLE, will you stop ganging up on the Reform Jew poster? On any given thread, once a "voice" has been identified, all the dcum bullies start ganging up on them. First, one of you tried to call her some atheist poster from the past. You were wrong. Then you kept attributing posts that didn't belong to the Reform Jew to him or her. Again wrong. Stop being a bully, it's tiresome.

Let me get this straight: it's not OK to gang up on a Reform Jew for behaving badly, but it's perfectly fair to gang up on the Catholic poster (I'm not her) with her sentimental posts, and it would be fun if we all bully her together. Do I have that right? Thanks for clearing that up!

At least, the Reform Jew comes back to answer questions. If you're going to take up half a page, take the time to engage in the conversation. Have you ever tried to have a discussion with Catholic Lady? She can post page after page on philosophy, the Pope, etc. without ever answering the question posed.

Also, no one said the kinds of things that are said about Reform Jew. She was accused for months of authoring every negative/slightly disagreeing post about religion. It was like a paranoid witch hunt.

For months? Did we miss another thread? This thread has only been around for a week or so. If there's history here, it would help to know it. Also, there has just got to be more than one Reform Jew on DCUM, so perhaps there's some mistaken identities here?

I cannot agree that it's OK to beat up on Catholic Lady -- just because she sees things differently from you (or me, for that matter). In any case, I've seen her answer questions. I suppose her answers aren't satisfactory, in that they're not what you or I would want her to say. But she's different from us. I'm OK with that, and it's not a threat to me. Doesn't make me want to go out and beat her up - or condone it when others beat her up.

I don't think I am "the" Catholic Lady you are referencing, though I am "a" Catholic lady wno tends to write dramatically, so maybe I am who you are thinking about? I don't know how posters are ever so certain they are referring to the same poster...I just don't see the same similarities as others, I guess...

In any case, I just wanted to cheer for insightful discourse without ill will. I learn so much here, because everyone is so different. Because of the anonymity, words here are really just words. We don't need to fear the force of the law, or anything. It's just ideas. But we can still choose to lift people up, or tear them down.

Humans are so complex. Our reason never acts alone. As to the OP's original question, this is what I would fall back on:

A human seeks the truth by the unaided effort of reason, and s/he is disappointed.
It is offered by faith, and s/he accepts.
And, having accepted, s/he finds it satisfies reason.

So we may have excellent hypotheses about how old the earth is, how humans came to be, how this all began. But that does not answer why. Science can't do that. Science would never try to do that.

But there is no contradiction between the truth and God. God is the Truth. Nothing to fear.

So how to respond to the misguided lady in the OP's story? Charitably.

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Also, no one said the kinds of things that are said about Reform Jew. She was accused for months of authoring every negative/slightly disagreeing post about religion. It was like a paranoid witch hunt.

For months? Did we miss another thread? This thread has only been around for a week or so. If there's history here, it would help to know it. Also, there has just got to be more than one Reform Jew on DCUM, so perhaps there's some mistaken identities here?

I cannot agree that it's OK to beat up on Catholic Lady -- just because she sees things differently from you (or me, for that matter). In any case, I've seen her answer questions. I suppose her answers aren't satisfactory, in that they're not what you or I would want her to say. But she's different from us. I'm OK with that, and it's not a threat to me. Doesn't make me want to go out and beat her up - or condone it when others beat her up.

Yes, for months. I do not have the energy to find the threads referencing her.

C9BL and Catholic Lady do occasionally write similar things, but they are relatively easy to tell apart by writing style/general attitude. I don't think it is that difficult to find Reform Jew, either. Ranting Atheist is fairly easy to pick out of a thread, though I think a lot of people are accused of being her. If you have been reading threads on religion for the last year or two, these things would probably be more apparent to you. Or, perhaps, my ability to remember minute details is freakish.

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Also, it's not that Catholic Lady's answers aren't satisfactory. They're simply not answers most of the time. Someone asks her a direct question and she posts a half-page response. I read the mini novel in the hopes that there is an answer somewhere in there, only to find there are none.