My brain caught fire about halfway through, even with your sporks (which were awesome, btw) so I may have missed some stuff that was addressed.
Look, asscactus, once there are conditions attached to the "charity", it's not fucking charity anymore. He called it "free money"-- O HAI BULLSHIT, YOU'RE UP EARLY TODAY!
The fact is, and I know some people said this already, it was a no-win situation. Crossing out "god" on a sign doesn't mean you're denying anything, and, yes, they could have always made a new sign, but once Aaron was approached he was screwed. Because if he'd said "yes" and done it he would have been ridiculed for being weak and how faith is weak, and ~look how easy is it to manipulate believers, woo~ etc. And as we saw, once he said "no" he couldn't take it back without being ridiculed for the same reasons, and if he hadn't taken it back: OMG LOOK HOW OBSTINATE THESE RELIGIOUS NUTTERS ARE. FUCK ME SIDEWAYS, THIS IS WHY WE HAVE GLOBAL WARMING ASDFGHJKL (or some other bullshit reasoning).
Also, and I'll have to double-check the specifics of this, so don't quote me or anything, but you're not supposed to destroy god's name. However there's a debate on what exactly that means. I know in Judaism that anything with god's *full* name written *in Hebrew* and not just as a generic word for "gods" is sacred and not supposed to even be thrown out with regular trash, but I have no idea how that translates into Christianity and Islam.
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Date: 2011-02-27 05:32 pm (UTC)Look, asscactus, once there are conditions attached to the "charity", it's not fucking charity anymore. He called it "free money"-- O HAI BULLSHIT, YOU'RE UP EARLY TODAY!
The fact is, and I know some people said this already, it was a no-win situation. Crossing out "god" on a sign doesn't mean you're denying anything, and, yes, they could have always made a new sign, but once Aaron was approached he was screwed. Because if he'd said "yes" and done it he would have been ridiculed for being weak and how faith is weak, and ~look how easy is it to manipulate believers, woo~ etc. And as we saw, once he said "no" he couldn't take it back without being ridiculed for the same reasons, and if he hadn't taken it back: OMG LOOK HOW OBSTINATE THESE RELIGIOUS NUTTERS ARE. FUCK ME SIDEWAYS, THIS IS WHY WE HAVE GLOBAL WARMING ASDFGHJKL (or some other bullshit reasoning).
Also, and I'll have to double-check the specifics of this, so don't quote me or anything, but you're not supposed to destroy god's name. However there's a debate on what exactly that means. I know in Judaism that anything with god's *full* name written *in Hebrew* and not just as a generic word for "gods" is sacred and not supposed to even be thrown out with regular trash, but I have no idea how that translates into Christianity and Islam.