Apologists and Critics at War?

[_Yoda]

I would say there is a modicum of truth in some of my responses. Some of them were useless though. I gotta go.....Sesame Street is on.

Actually, Sesame Street is over. It's time for Barney. (I have a 4 year old)

;)

[_Some Schmo]

I don't consider it a war either. It's just the free exchange of ideas and insults.

Quite frankly, I couldn't care less what apologists and TBMs think. I've haven't cared since I left the church. They never really say anything of consequence, so there are only two basic ways to respond: either with derision, or nothing. Often I say nothing, but sometimes, I feel the need to offer derision. I talk to them the way I do because it's therapeutic for me to do so. They represent a thing in my life that has caused me and my family a tremendous amount of anguish over the years, and so they're taking it on the chin for the church from me by proxy.

I recognize that people likely don't take what I say very seriously (they shouldn't, anyway), and it's not important that they do. All that's important to me is to vent my feelings as I feel them, and for that, I am eternally grateful to this board.

But a war? The only thing this situation we have has in common with war is that there are never any winners. That's about it. Calling this a war makes it sound like it's actually somehow important, like there's some universal conclusion at which we're all going to arrive. I'm sure nobody's holding their breath for that.