It's true, though... Ask anyone here. Me and my poor little IQ. They only put up with me because I'm cute. And because, you know, being so stupid, I need someone to help me wipe after I pee. They're kinda pervs, ya know.
If they're so painfully simple-minded, why is it you're having such a difficult time responding to them in a manner that makes it seem like you read and understand them?Jetsetlemming wrote:(you're making painfully simple minded points)
The capitalization thing really isn't that complicated. If you concentrate, just a little, you'll get it.
I didn't say it's inappropriate according to modern convention to capitalize christain (or the names of any other faith)... I merely said it's inappropriate to capitalize them by accepted rules of grammar.
Get it? Rules of style say capitalize them. Why? Because we always do and everyone else does. Rules of grammar say a proper noun is "a name for an individual person, place, or organization" which christian, islamic, bhuddist, jewish, or whatever are not, however Mormon, Catholic, Presbyterian, Hasidic, Shiite, and Daoist are. (bhuddists don't belong in this conversation, by the way... bhuddism is not a religion nor a faith.)
It's still "correct" to capitalize all of them, though, as I've been saying all along. The telling point in what I've been saying is made in considering why we capitalize them.
And what about your "average" christian...? I'm sorry if this seems condescending, but you leave me with little choice but to ask. You do know what "average" means, right?
If there are ten christians, and three go to church every week, and three go once a month, and three go once a year, and one just doesn't go... Why then, the average christian goes to church 19.5 times a year, or about once every 3 weeks.
Well, depending on the data you believe, somewhere around 85% of Americans are self-proclaimed christians, and about 20% of Americans attend church at least once per week. See where this is going? The average christian in America only goes to church once a month, and America is the single most religious nation, at least by self-proclaimation, in the industrialized world. Isreal, by comparison, is 77% Jewish. According to a University of Michigan study (UM is kind of the Harvard of public opinion research, as I understand it frompeople with degrees in the field...) 53% of Americans consider religion to be very important in their lives. This compares with 16% in Britain, 14% in France and 13% in Germany.
Are you getting the math...? Your assessment of the "average" christian is demonstrably wrong.
As to the rest... The little dying bobby bit... Well, as I've said, again and again and again. That's a matter of personal choice. If "knowing" some silly crap that someone else told you will happen when you die is all the truth and knowledge and logic you demand from the world, then yes... I guess "knowing" you'll go to the happy place is fine.
The point is, though... The point I made in my very first response to you on the subject... Is that it's a crutch. A drug. An opiate, to borrow from Marx. A self-serving delusion designed to make you feel better about a scary reality.
Also, the fact that it falls to personal chioce, thought, doesn't make it equally valid. Just because you can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the most logically likely outcome is true doesn't mean that the least logically likely outcome is therefore equally likely. I can't prove there aren't a cabal of highly intelligent basset hounds beaming secret instructions into the brains of world leaders at all times, but that doesn't mean it's probable.
) I've seen the worst overzealous christianity can do to someone's behavior and mind, and I grew up around drug users. Christianity can be good or bad, but is mostly in the "fairly good, not really all that great" category, while crack is the "life destroying bad" category. How could you not see that?
