Drolgerg and Penelope vs David and Goliath
Yesterday on twitter I RTd a tweet about judge Cherie Booth (Mrs Tony Blair)'s idiocy in letting off a guy who was convicted of a serious assault on the utterly fallacious assumption that because he was religious he was therefore more moral than the rest of us. Bigotry, favouritism & cronyism of the worst order, & actually pretty typical of Blair's Labour regime.
This is the tweet: RT: Do religious people really not get why atheists are starting to shout, when this CRAP comes out? http://bit.ly/btuGLU. Nothing too extreme, right?
A twitter user called @DavidAndGoliath, who calls himself Christian, took issue with it.
After tweeting back & forth - during which time he was abusive & offensive, & I tried to be as calm & logical as I could – he’d argued himself into a corner.
At that point I asked him point blank: what is it exactly that you object to about my tweet? His response? Nothing. I eventually gave up.
He then deleted all his tweets on the subject.* I thought all this was pretty cowardly & dishonest. After having a go at me, abusively, when he was proved wrong - or at least had had reasonable doubt made on his argument - he wouldn't back down or apologise. Instead he cut & ran then shredded the evidence, so he could pretend nothing had happened & carry on in his self-imposed delusions.
He seemed unable / unwilling to see the point we were making, & seemed determined to read a lot into it that was never there.
This, to me, illustrates a great divider in humanity: the open-minded & rational vs narrow-minded bigotry.
When proved wrong an open-minded & rational person will acknowledge that they may be wrong, even if it means examining values that they hold dear, even ones by which they may define their existence.
The closed-minded person is unable or unwilling to do this, & will do what this guy did: run away from anything uncomfortable & bury their head in the sand.
And by the way I don’t mean this only of religious people; it can be true of anyone: zealot, atheist & any shade inbetween.
If we were all able to question even our most cherished opinions when circumstances or reason suggests it our world might be a much happier place.
* I kept copies
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7 comments:
You can never win with such people, it would be nice to think you could instill some logic into their minds but if that were the case they would not be the narrow minded ones that they are! Good try though!
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Twitter seems to breed small minded bigotry. The fact that he deleted the offending tweets proves that he is a coward who is unable to make a rational argument in an intelligent way.
Thanks for the feedback: yes, I did try! Obviously I agree with you 100%
I read it Greg!
It seems to me you've out-debated him pal. He probably wasn't expecting a response, and after you'd knocked it backward & forward he probably realized you had the upper hand & he didn't want to seem an idiot.
Religious types can tend to have a chip on their shoulders in my opinion, & woe betide anybody who dares question any aspect of their belief. Yet when you do, they pretty soon run out of argument.
I feel everybody has a right to their point of view. I dont have firm views either way & am happy to live & let live.
From what I think I know about you I'm sure you tried to engage with the guy, but it seems he didn't want to listen to reason. Shame really. He had a chance to get his point of view across but obviously he doesn't have true courage of his convictions.
For what it's worth, I have you right about Ms Booth. No depth to her or her husband. Obsessed with pandering to every aspect of society with particular focus on the minorities. In my Opinion :-)
Yep - I reckon you got it right, P1sty. Many religious types seem to regard themselves as having some sort immutable right to have their views & practices made a protected species. And the way new Labour has allowed & enabled minority 'faith' groups to take public money & have their views - ones which are based on irrational personal belief & are often at often diametrically opposed to a pluralstic democratic society - made part of public policy is an utter disgrace.
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