{"id":2110,"date":"2011-02-21T09:41:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:41:52","slug":"when-christians-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"When Christians Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, I had a little problem with a particular Christian. A few weeks ago, a Christian e-mailed me asking for a collaborative project where we each ask each other 5 questions on our Examiner pages and then we each answer them. The way it was pitched to me, we would refrain from personal attacks and just concentrate on the topic.<\/p>\n

What tends to happen a lot with Christians is that as soon as someone criticizes their religious beliefs (the whole point of the collaboration) they take it as a personal attack and then they feel that the gloves are off and they can personally attack back. This was the case this weekend.<\/p>\n

I admit that I viciously attacked Christianity as a belief system but I made sure to not only refrain from personal attacks, but I also told my readers to do the same. The Christian Examiner in question, responded by writing an entire article ignoring the questions I asked and focusing on me personally. One of his popular techniques was to make up whole conversations and attack my name to them. When I called him out on it, he changed the article slightly but the substance did not change.<\/p>\n

Instead of saying that I said things that I didn\u2019t say, he said that he imaged that I would say things that I would never say and then criticized me for saying them (which I didn\u2019t actually say). He didn\u2019t understand why I would be pissed that wrote a whole article which just attacked me personally rather than address the actual issues. He didn\u2019t understand that making up conversations and attacking my name to them is not a friendly way to debate an issue. He didn\u2019t understand the difference between viciously criticizing a belief and viciously attacking a person.<\/p>\n

The thing is that he started this whole collaboration in a friendly, passive manner and then turned around and wrote a not so friendly, aggressive, personal attack. When I called him out on it, he fell back on his false piety. I wish I could say that this was the first time I had a collaboration with a Christian that went this way, but it isn\u2019t. It seems that this type of thing happens a lot and not just to me. I wonder if it is something they teach in Sunday School.
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