In Reply to: Re: my story posted by A Christian on March 07, 2005 at 21:39:10:
Of course you're not against witnessing. As a Christian it is required of you. I don't doubt that your further questions are sincerely intended, but this is as far as I intend to go with this very personal conversation in this very public forum. Especially with someone anonymous. As I said earlier, my full story is for another time, but it will certainly be told.
I still think that you're the kind of Christian I can have a reasonable conversation with, but not on a board like this. There are too many who post here that have no respect for a person of my views, because they are so certain of their "truth," and I don't care to expose myself further to nonsense that is directed at me. Even posting that tiny, tiny bit of my story, which was directed to you in response to your specific question, attracted another anonymous person, Question, who couldn't resist witnessing to me. By the way, I particularly dislike that pseudonym that person uses, as it is dishonest coming from a person who believes that one must have faith in order to please God, which is antithetical to questioning and doubting. I think that any God/god that requires faith from his/her subjects in order to be pleased, and discourages doubting and questioning is petty and not worthy of worship. That is not love, in my opinion.
Also, I currently have far more important things to do that take priority over discussing philosophical, metaphysical and teleological matters, as interesting as those things are. This is a critical time for exposing TF further. Ever since I came to this site a year ago I have been using my legal first name, with the intention of one day going even more public. The only reason I haven't so far is that once I do, there's a good chance I'll be a target of some of TF's typical smear tactics. I'm not afraid of them, just building my strength up for the battles ahead.
I know this is probably coming across as rather harsh sounding. I don't necessarily mean to take that tact with you. Perhaps under different circumstances at a different time we could have a very intelligent, deep conversation. But then, I won't know who you are, because you are anonymous.