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@tynan
The other stalwart of the Christian/Christian apologist.
The poor old persecuted Christian. :(
With them numbering 2.3 billion (a third of humanity) having control of the vast majority of the world's wealth and power, having presidents and prime ministers, chancellors and kings in every corner of the world, being the UKs biggest land owner, America's biggest land real estate owner, it's biggest recipient of tax exemption, of legal exemption and so on ad nauseam.
Even with all this, if you express your views with any kind of honesty these people snap into offended mode so readily. Religion has gorged itself on cultural deference and protection from criticism for hundreds of years, people tip toeing around, not wanting to upset, idiot theological clerics making the most ludicrous metaphysical and moral pontifications.
It is telling that when confronted with any kind epistemological question beyond the trivial, the divine and the apologist react not with counter argument or debate but readily take the line of "you shouldn't be allowed to say that, silence that critic, silence the critic".
The persecution line is another smoke screen to avoid any kind of robust debate.