If you’re going for some general argument stuff, I have no clue what this had to do with the post above. I was curious if your elaboration would make me read your original comment as anything other than a drive-by attack on religion, but it ended up not doing that. I find the comment as off-putting as if I pointedly ended this comment by claiming something unfavorable about the rhetorical tactics of communists—what would it add besides an insult?
I did not mean to offend you or anyone else here, I was using the analogy in the way gjm explained in the other reply:
“it’s a thing lots of people assume is a reasonable idea that one ought to consider the possibility of, but I think it actually doesn’t make sense, and the more closely you look at it the less sense it makes, and bringing it into a discussion usually makes that discussion less useful rather than more”.
If you’re going for some general argument stuff, I have no clue what this had to do with the post above. I was curious if your elaboration would make me read your original comment as anything other than a drive-by attack on religion, but it ended up not doing that. I find the comment as off-putting as if I pointedly ended this comment by claiming something unfavorable about the rhetorical tactics of communists—what would it add besides an insult?
I did not mean to offend you or anyone else here, I was using the analogy in the way gjm explained in the other reply:
I’ll take your word for that. I misread you pretty thoroughly; I’m sorry for that.