Reply #56: We're now getting into "YMMV" territory

[Nihil]

> I dispute your claim that using an "adult" comparison rather than
> a "childish" one...
> is somehow going to be seen as less offensive. I personally have made
> comparisons to Zeus and other so-called "adult" comparisons and have
> not noticed ANY less offense taken.

Fair enough. I personally don't take any offence from the sort of comparison
to Zeus or where other past/present/fictional deities are used as an alternative
to the overused (and overloaded) word "God" but others may well do so.
With regard to the more childish comparisons that I mentioned previously,
I just get the impression that such a poster has no intention of being
serious or genuine, just deliberately trying to wind-up the other person.

Maybe it's just a simple difference of opinion after all but it has become
so prevalent here on R/T lately that - as I said in .23 - I find it a shame
as the noise is drowning out the signal.


> The mere suggestion that a person's particular god MAY be as fictional
> as all the other ones they don't believe in seems to be the root problem,
> not the comparison one happens to pick.

YMMV. I find it different but there again, although I'm a deist of sorts,
I'm not particularly religious per se (not holding to any established religion
or creed) so maybe I'm just not seeing an intent to offend with any of the
other mythological/fictional alternatives where I do perceive an intent to
ridicule with those mentioned earlier.

Thanks for the peaceful & rational discussion (to all of you btw). :hi: