re: #269 Mattand

Well, now that I’ve calmed down a bit, all flights out of Vegas have been grounded due to weather. Not AA’s fault, but I was on a bit of a short fuse because they lost our luggage on the way out to Salt Lake City.

We may be stuck in Vegas for two days as of right now.

I’m sorry to hear you’re stuck. I guess that’s an opportunity to gamble away all your money in the slot machines in the airport. /s

Thinking about that Pavlovitz piece above, what he’s really doing is saying that the actions of some douchecanoe Christians are what’s really driving people to atheism and away from churches. That’s a pretty shallow take on why a person becomes an atheist, and he’s trying to use us to shame his fellow believers (if you only followed the words of Christ, this wouldn’t be happening). Evangelicals can also justify their positions with the Bible.

There are plenty of douchecanoe atheists as well (for example, Sam Harris). No one makes the argument “Wow, Sam Harris is a real douchecanoe, therefore I’m going to become a Christian because all atheists are like him.”