tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post6817134775273929715..comments2023-10-10T10:34:10.843-06:00Comments on The Nexus of Assholery: Ironically, We Don't Want the Assholes to Love UsPatrick Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592482865332628189noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post-26285529085511969022009-03-14T13:19:00.000-06:002009-03-14T13:19:00.000-06:00I think I'd rather go to hell and burn with Ghandi...I think I'd rather go to hell and burn with Ghandi than go to heaven and have to hang out with Fred Phelps.<BR/><BR/>That is, if I believed in hell in the conventional sense.Patrick Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04592482865332628189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post-71203927207041048192009-03-13T17:43:00.000-06:002009-03-13T17:43:00.000-06:00Quite frankly, I'd rather be disliked rather than ...Quite frankly, I'd rather be disliked rather than betray my conscience. Besides, much in the same way martial arts have their code of conduct, I believe that even the most heated discussions have their own rules. <BR/><BR/>Launching personal attacks on your opponent, for one, is technically hitting below the belt. Just because you don't agree with somebody doesn't mean it has to degrade into a mudfight. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the said mudslinging I've noticed tends to come from religious fundies.<BR/><BR/>If you're following the fundie's lead on who's going to hell, it sure doesn't sound like such a bad place anymore.<BR/><BR/>Sure there are the regular monsters like Hitler, Pol Pot, and Stalin, but I realized people like Gandhi (non-Christian), Stephen Hawking (agnostic), most of the US Presidents (deists), Dawkins (atheist), Hugh Hefner, Albert Einstein, and George Carlin are also condemned to the eternal fires of damnation as well. <BR/><BR/>Heaven on the other hand gets guys like Billy Graham, Falwell, and Pat Robertson.<BR/><BR/>P.S.<BR/>Pardon the grammar nazi moment, but: <BR/><BR/>"...I get enjoy infrequent interactions..."<BR/><BR/>should be written as<BR/><BR/>"I get to enjoy infrequent interactions..."Contents under pressuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08150798234316773741noreply@blogger.com