Some of these atheists really take things too seriously

[fpb]

So I happened to repeat an observation made several times before by many other people, and that is at any case not to be taken in total earnest (evidence for the existence of God can be sought in slightly more fundamental areas): that atheists with a taste for fine things are unlucky, because they have nobody to be grateful to for them. Suddenly a couple of atheists have me in a death grip all over my page, and, through a fog of misunderstandings, misexplainations, and one or two downright lies, they are trying to - I don't quite know, but do some damage to my statement one way or another. Folks, whether or not you are as bad at philosophy as I think you are, don't you think you ought to find more serious things (including, yes, more serious statements from me) to get intense about?

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[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Actually, the responses you got seem pretty reasonable (and sometimes humorous) to me. You're the one getting angry and indignant.

I somehow doubt your sense of humor would remain intact if someone posted something that was mildly disparaging of Catholics.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Try me. I probably know more anti-clerical stories than you do. And coming from Rome, I know all the real dirt.

And the statement is not only humorous, it is old. It has been repeated by many people before me.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and they were wrong, too. :P

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I see. You have been outside the universe and found no God there. Now that must have been an interesting journey. I wish you would write about it some time.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

See, you can't take a flippant remark as anything other than a serious challenge to debate, and then you complain about atheists taking your flippant remarks seriously.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I was trying to lighten up the mood, and I get pecked for it. Well, birdie, next time best hold on to your feathers.

Wouldn't it have been better just to brag about the wonders you would perform as soon as you started to write your account?

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

If you meant to lighten up the mood, I think at the very least a smiley might have helped in that case...

Oh, Mr. Barbieri

[botticelli-s.livejournal.com]

I share your chagrin. I have met atheists with a sense of humor, but evidently these are not them.

For heaven's sake (yeah) lighten up, atheists. :^)

See, there's a smiley.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I might write them as stories, one day. But where is the time?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Mh, I wonder what you are talking about, now.

Are you engaged in some new and interesting pursuit? 8-)

[botticelli-s.livejournal.com]

My wife (you may recall, the one who looks like Rafaella Carra') attended La Sapienza and lived in Rome for many years. She's got some real hair-raisers to tell. It's simply more evidence of how high Christianity sets the bar, and of the need for mercy and grace. Not that that would impress any of your interlocutors.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

For anyone who wants to know, "La Sapienza" is the first State University of Rome (Rome has probably more universities than any other city, what with one or two dozen Papal universities, three state ones, and four or five private institutions, but La Sapienza is as large as all the rest put together). Raffaella Carra' is a blonde, long-legged showgirl who has dominated Italian TV for forty years and is still singing and dancing in her sixties. If this gentleman's wife resembles her, that seems to guarantee that she is both attractive and energetic.