Ironically, this turned out not to be the case; he was thinking of Kawoomba, our resident … actually, I’d assumed he only attacked me on this sort of thing.
A common problem when one person tries to explain the words of another to a third party, yes.
Funny thing—I had a brief interaction over private messaging with Kawoomba on the subject of religion some time back, and he seemed reasonable at the time. Mildly curious, firmly atheistic, and not at all hostile.
I’m not sure if he changed, or if he’s hostile to only a specific subcategory of theists?
As I said, I’d assumed it was just me; we got into a rather lengthy argument some time ago on whether human ethics generalize, and he’s been latching onto anything I say that’s even tangentially related ever since. I’m not sure why he’s so eager to convince me, since he believes his values are incompatible with mine, but it seems it may have something to do with him pattern-matching my position with the Inquisition or something.
Ironically, this turned out not to be the case; he was thinking of Kawoomba, our resident … actually, I’d assumed he only attacked me on this sort of thing.
A common problem when one person tries to explain the words of another to a third party, yes.
Funny thing—I had a brief interaction over private messaging with Kawoomba on the subject of religion some time back, and he seemed reasonable at the time. Mildly curious, firmly atheistic, and not at all hostile.
I’m not sure if he changed, or if he’s hostile to only a specific subcategory of theists?
As I said, I’d assumed it was just me; we got into a rather lengthy argument some time ago on whether human ethics generalize, and he’s been latching onto anything I say that’s even tangentially related ever since. I’m not sure why he’s so eager to convince me, since he believes his values are incompatible with mine, but it seems it may have something to do with him pattern-matching my position with the Inquisition or something.