At 3:29 PM, July 30, 2006, Daniel Morgan said...
“I am still unwilling to believe this guy is authentic, with his big ‘deconversion because of John’ story.”
http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2006/07/exbeliever-comments-on-repperts.html
I have to second Mr. Morgan’s suspicions. It stretches credulity to the breaking point to suppose that anyone in his right mind would take the arguments of John Loftus seriously.
No halfway intelligent believer would lose his faith over the standard fare that Loftus dishes up on a regular basis. For once, Danny and I are on the same page.
The only plausible alternative is that the Discomfiter is legit, but out of his mind.
Like flies on a dunghill, Loftus has a way of attracting a unique clientele. There was that New Age flake he briefly recruited—Quackeria or whatever her name was.
Then he had a one-time team member—Paladin?—who was, by his own admission, a little funny upstairs.
Not to mention the massage therapist who used to be an ordained minister in a notorious cult. Not that I have anything against a nice backrub, mind you, although I’d naturally prefer the services of a shapely Swedish masseuse to a hair-handed apostate.
So that’s another possibility which Danny may have overlooked.
Yeah, Danny asked if it was you or me.
ReplyDeleteThey can't face that it could be a real Loftus convert.
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ReplyDeleteHey, nobody makes a scathing parody of me without my permission. What's the matter Steve, you don't think I can deconvert Christians with my masterful argumentation? I know I've just dealt you and your cohorts another devastating blow. It's just eatin' at you inside and so you lash out at me. Hey, I understand. I'll have a chapter about you guys in my new book, Non-evidence that Demands a Confused Verdict. And Discomfiter, since I can't hand out video-taped messages to Al-Jazeera, I am using this forum to command your return to the DC headquarters to get fitted with an explosives belt....thank you
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that I read the discomfiter's blog and laughed a lot.
ReplyDeleteIt is clearly a scathing parody of Loftus. What was so funny was how quickly the atheists turned hostile, however, given Loftus' own declaration that it was negativity from Christians which turned him off.
Parody is a form of flattery. Someday if you guys are worthy, someone will parody you too. ;-)
ReplyDeleteSteve, you never claimed to be perfectly right about everything, did you? I must have missed that post. Atheists hate it when you actually know something for sure...
ReplyDeleteOh, unless it can be "scientifically" proven...
ReplyDeleteLoftus, you sound awfully fragile there. Can it be that this Discomfiter wallah is discomfiting you?
ReplyDeleteCan it be that this is the reason he did it? After all, if your skin is thin, as thine seemeth to be, you do rather ask for it.
Not that this means I fully approve of it. Still, I long ago learned that the way to deal with this is to laugh along with them. Show you're a sport.
Or do a better parody than the old 'you're a sectarian bigot, yah!' line. Heard it so many times.
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