Jackpot

Jack thinks that atheists who can accept that others believe in god are cool.

Let's make sure he does.

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[Furrowbrow]

Great video there, Pino.

I find it interesting that a theist would accuse atheists of evangelism.

I've never ever had an atheist knocking at my door to 'close my eyes to theism', or been stopped in the street by somebody telling me that there probably is no God, so I should just get on and enjoy my life.

I've never walked past somebody preaching from 'the origin of the species' in the street.

Religious folk feel they have the right to do all of these things, and sulk when they get rebutted.

[rozeboosje]

LOL - yeah

[premed2]

Thank you so much for this. You obviously have thought about this much deeper than I. You were very clear; I feel that for the first time I understand why you act toward Jack in the way you do. Thanks again.

[rozeboosje]

["looking at a psychopath"] - Not that I am qualified to make such an assessment - that just in addition to what I already said about that being a gut feeling.

[rozeboosje]

Sorry for sounding melodramatic but - when I look at Jack I think I am looking at a psychopath. I think of all the people I have come across on YouTube, Jack may be one who is truly dangerous. And that, again, I will gladly admit, is just a gut feeling. Don't ask me to explain WHY I think that.

[rozeboosje]

that he seemed to relish immensely the game of cat and mouse he thought he was engaged in with me. When eventually I pushed him to admitting his true feelings, he not only disengaged from the interaction immediately, he has since made a point of point blank ignoring anything I say to him. I see him post his videos and I think "FRAUD". Is that a manifestation of a "strong" sense of morality? I don't know, but it sure flies in the face of my instinctive sense of "fair play".

[rozeboosje]

I would love to think that Jack is just, as you like to think, struggling with an internal conflict between his emotional need to feel that he is in a special relationship with his imaginary friend, and what he believes is in store for those who (as he sees it) reject that relationship (rather than, as it actually is, cannot accept that the imaginary friend really exists), but my experience back then is that he seemed to think that I was, back then, looking for his "approval" and (more)

[rozeboosje]

But with Jack, all my intuitions point at "con artist". Jack is after something. Just like Anne Widdecombe said about Michael Howard, he has "something of the night" about him. I know I have already been proven right about him once; I don't know whether you saw my video "my Paxman to Jack's Howard", but that is when I KNEW he condemned people. And yet, he would not say so outright, until I pushed him and pushed him until he finally gave in and admitted it in a comment. (more)

[rozeboosje]

try to reinterpret the tenets of their faith so that they become neutral toward the out-group. A very good example of this, in the Christian community, is Universal Salvation, the notion that Jesus died for us all, and that the Gospel, the "good news" is just a matter of making sure everybody knows it so they don't have to live their life worrying about what may come after (yeah, I know, it's a form of "projection" but at least it's, in my opinion, a harmless one). (more)

[rozeboosje]

I'm pointing out two Christians because this is leading up to me trying to explain why I respond like this to Jack, in particular, but there are plenty of people like that in all "communities" on YouTube, including the "atheist" one.

Then there are plenty of people who genuinely embrace things such as Christianity for personal reasons, but who honestly struggle with the condemnatory nature of what it says in their holy book or dogma. I recognise these people by the way they (more)