Recently over at MAD a thread was started by Bee Eff called "Anti-Religious Conventions: Are We The Only Ones?". The thread was fairly uninteresting, except that it provided another [ANOTHER!] example of the MAD moderation bias. The critic roman (who had 1700+ posts, not exactly a one-day troll) was banned for the following post:
QUOTE(Bee Eff @ Mar 29 2008, 06:35 PM)
do non-LDS Christians not care about these other children of God as much as they care about us?
roman says
Just to clarify-----------------others-muslims and JW---- are not children of God
We are all children of God. Permanent ban. ~Mods
Fairly stupid, but really banworthy? Seems like a suspension or warning type post to me. Anyways he was banned and here comes our old pal selek (who in Mister Scratch's recent blog profile is said to have been suspended 15+ times) with this little number.
selek wrote:QUOTE(jwhitlock @ Mar 30 2008, 08:41 AM)
I'm not sure that any "ratio of deaths" in any measurement is "justifiable", in the most basic sense of the word.
As to cutting down the violence, so far no one's found a way to do it. However, that's probably a topic for another thread.
And the fact that the politics folder was shut down.
Please, go elsewhere for the bong of partisan politicals.
We have smaller, and far more inept fish to fry here.
Mudcat, akboy, et al.-
The fact that these "outreach" ministries rely on scurrilous and deliberately false claims to propogandize people against an entire faith qualifies them as hate speech.
If I were to deliberately lie about you- defame your character, and misrepresent your beliefs, that's libel and slander. The only difference is that these groups do it against an entire religion and solely because of that religion.
They are deliberately crafting false stereotypes and painting a false characterization of an entire people- and that's no different than the pseudo-scientific nonsense about ethnic superiority or inferiority that was so in vogue up until the 1960's.
They are exploiting ignorance, casting falsehoods, and creating "fear of another" for narrow, partisan purposes and that behavior stands in blatant violation of everything the Savior stood for.
Mudcat, I had begun to hope that you were a voice of reason amidst the flower bed of blooming idiots that is the evangelical counter-cult industry.
Your willingness to support blatant lies, un-Christian dogmatism, and such bigoted rhetoric means I must sharply revise my opinion of your downward.
As for you, Roman, the only difference between yourself and Balaam's mount is that the mount was justified and honest.
Take a break, Selek. ~ Mods
Not only does selek get to take direct shots at posters (mudcat and roman (who had already been banned and thus couldn't respond) in this most recent post) he continues to only get suspended! After more than a dozen warnings! WTF? Just another example of Selek getting another shot. Oh well.