I find most of Rick's religious waffle easy to skip over - it is the
same old crap, again and again. Everyone - Christian, Atheist, whatever
- is possessed by the devil and going to hell unless we read the bible
enough to join Rick's particular one-man cult.
But what /really/ bugs me is his "evidence" - his claims that
scientists, historians, archaeologists, etc., are supporting his
nonsense. It is so hard to resist the temptation to point out the
logical and factual flaws - despite knowing that it will lead to more
off-topic threads. As an amateur history fan, and a layman scientist, I
really enjoy discussing "evidence" - primarily with people who are open
to discussion rather than "god did it" dogma. However, I have no wish
to encourage Rick's style of annoyance in this newsgroup.
(I have nothing against people with religious faith of any sort - if you
feel convinced there is a "god" of some sort, and feel he/she has
touched your life in some way, that's fine by me. Religious freedom is
a human right. And telling others about it is fine too. It is
/pushing/ those ideas on others that is the problem, it is claims about
"evidence" that I ridicule, and it is using your beliefs against
science, health, education, the environment, human rights, etc., that I
oppose.)