You have pointed out on another thread that you are not insulted by truths.
Yet other people are not as calm as you on this. I for example am currently VERY overweight (need to loose about 40kgs). I
know I am, but if someone told me to the face I still would be insulted/offended, because it hurts me to be reminded of that truth
So it's not about proving if your statement was right. It simply carried the possibility of being offensive by choice of words:
"So you believe in a masturbating universe, big deal" not an actual quote, just paraphrasing) which diminishes the value of the presumed divine essence by connecting it with something which in religions is commonly referred to as unclean or even sinful.
Many Christians would find it offensive if somebody diminished the importance of Jesus by calling him factually correct but simplicistic names, probably I would find that offensive myself, though an agnostic, only because I was raised in a Catholic enviroment and don't like my childhood pictures being shattered.
So whether or not your statement may be deemed correct, I think it is possibly offensive to people who strongly believe in pantheism in a similar way Maelakin's sig was offensive to you at the beginning of the other thread.
[ 10-30-2003, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: Faceman ]