God Makers

[prisonchaplain]

I do not find mocking, parody, sarcasm, baiting, flaming, ignorance, aversion to be good ways to criticise something. Parody is fun for entertainment but as a serious debate item it does not work.

Serious debate is an under-appreciated, oft-despised, and dying art, imho. I engaged in some high school debate, and enjoyed it greatly. However, the entire approach to issues simply does not resonate with post-moderns. Parody and sarcasm, on the other hand, are over-recognized and flourishing forms of persuasion, far too influential, imho.

[Blackmarch]

Serious debate is an under-appreciated, oft-despised, and dying art, imho. I engaged in some high school debate, and enjoyed it greatly. However, the entire approach to issues simply does not resonate with post-moderns. Parody and sarcasm, on the other hand, are over-recognized and flourishing forms of persuasion, far too influential, imho.

I agree.

[rayhale]

Was King David a great Israelite leader, or was he a murderer and an adulteress? It depends on who you ask, a Christian or a Jew. All of recorded history is bias, that is a fact. A Christian will view the world in a Christian perspective, a Jew will view the world in a Jewish perspective, a secular person will view the world in a secular perspective, and so forth.

[Just_A_Guy]

Was King David a great Israelite leader, or was he a murderer and an adulteress?

If he was an adulteress, then he must also have had a number of other rather disturbing issues you never hear about in Sunday School . . .

[Dravin]

If he was an adulteress, then he must also have had a number of other rather disturbing issues you never hear about in Sunday School . . .

Makes one wonder how he and Bathsheba had Solomon...