Has Ank gone off the deep end?

[derspiess]

I'm praying for Berkut.

[Admiral Yi]

But the point is that your whine is that other people don't call it what you want it called.

You, of course, are free to call it anything you like. But apparently others are only free to call it what YOU like.

I've made an effort to be civil, but now I'm done with your spazzing.

[katmai]

I'm praying for Berkut.

I guess someone has to.

[Berkut]

But the point is that your whine is that other people don't call it what you want it called.

You, of course, are free to call it anything you like. But apparently others are only free to call it what YOU like.

I've made an effort to be civil, but now I'm done with your spazzing.

You are the one self reporting as being offended. I am perfectly fine with Obama calling the White House Christmas tree whatever he wants, and you calling the same whatever you want.

How does that equate to me being the one "spazzing"?

[Berkut]

I'm praying for Berkut.

I guess someone has to.

I wonder what they are praying *for* though?

[derspiess]

For you to stop.

[Berkut]

That isn't very nice.

[Razgovory]

I took the time to read Raz, Viking, Marty and Hans and found them passe, arbitrary and unimaginative.

Finally, someone read my book!

[11B4V]

I took the time to read Raz, Viking, Marty and Hans and found them passe, arbitrary and unimaginative.

Finally, someone read my book!

[Jaron]

Mitt Romney's family baptized Ann Romney's atheist father into Mormon church a year AFTER his death

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093241/Mitt-Romneys-family-baptized-Ann-Romneys-atheist-father-Mormon-church-year-AFTER-death.html

Mormon Underwear, Revealed

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/mormon-underwear-revealed/381792/

Mormons are allowed to baptize their relatives after death. The controversy comes from when they baptize someone completely unrelated to them.

It is a proxy baptism and the deceased has the choice to accept or reject it.

[11B4V]

Mitt Romney's family baptized Ann Romney's atheist father into Mormon church a year AFTER his death

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093241/Mitt-Romneys-family-baptized-Ann-Romneys-atheist-father-Mormon-church-year-AFTER-death.html

Mormon Underwear, Revealed

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/mormon-underwear-revealed/381792/

Mormons are allowed to baptize their relatives after death. The controversy comes from when they baptize someone completely unrelated to them.

It is a proxy baptism and the deceased has the choice to accept or reject it.

Yea. Nut jobs.

[Jaron]

Mitt Romney's family baptized Ann Romney's atheist father into Mormon church a year AFTER his death

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093241/Mitt-Romneys-family-baptized-Ann-Romneys-atheist-father-Mormon-church-year-AFTER-death.html

Mormon Underwear, Revealed

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/mormon-underwear-revealed/381792/

Mormons are allowed to baptize their relatives after death. The controversy comes from when they baptize someone completely unrelated to them.

It is a proxy baptism and the deceased has the choice to accept or reject it.

Yea. Nut jobs.

[Berkut]

Mormon crazy sounds more crazy just because it is new crazy.

[dps]

It is - the only thing more amusing than overly sensitive guys like Ben is actual, real examples of people who actually get offended that other people don't call some decoration the name THEY want it to be called. The narcissism of the idea that only YOUR name is the acceptable name is amusing, to say the least.

I just said that people are totally free, this being a free country, to go chop down a Norwegian fir, stand it up in their living room, put a Star of Inoffensiveness at the top, hang a couple of winged statues of Lowest Common Denominator from the branches, and call it a Tree of Interfaith Dialogue if they want.  But as is your wont when that vein in your forehead starts a-twitchin', you ignored that.

The tree in question is not your private Tree of Interfaith Dialogue, it is partly my tree, and therefore I have a say in what it is called.

But the point is that your whine is that other people don't call it what you want it called.

You, of course, are free to call it anything you like. But apparently others are only free to call it what YOU like.

The problem lies not in not conforming to what Yi or I think it should be called, but in being too politically correct to call it what it is.  That's what political correctness is all about at its core, you do realize, don't you--trying to avoid giving offense to anyone by either using euphemisms or by avoiding unpleasant truths altogether.  I thought you were opposed to political correctness.

Boy, that would be narcisiitic, good thing I am not doing that, and simply taking them at their word on what they believe.

Uhm, no.  I've certainly never constantly insisted that God only created the universe so that I personally can worship him;  indeed, I don't think I've ever claimed that at all, though I suppose it's possible I've made some joke about it or maybe brought it up as a hypothetical in a discussion about epistemology.

[Tonitrus]

Mitt Romney's family baptized Ann Romney's atheist father into Mormon church a year AFTER his death

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093241/Mitt-Romneys-family-baptized-Ann-Romneys-atheist-father-Mormon-church-year-AFTER-death.html

Mormon Underwear, Revealed

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/mormon-underwear-revealed/381792/

Mormons are allowed to baptize their relatives after death. The controversy comes from when they baptize someone completely unrelated to them.

It is a proxy baptism and the deceased has the choice to accept or reject it.

Yea. Nut jobs.

The outrage is a little silly.  Why would an atheist care at all what someone tries to do to them after their death?