Bye Bob.

I will!

” I reacted badly to you, because you completely and repeatedly missed the point I was making.” You want to have it both ways. You claim you never meant that ancient religions were frauds, and apparently want an apology for thinking that’s what you meant, but when I said simply that there was a difference between ancients coming to weird beliefs honestly and modern fraudsters making it up, you didn’t say “You’re right about that but I’m just saying they all sound weird”, instead you insisted, loudly, for several rounds that you WERE saying the ancients were frauds, and now you have spent several rounds denying that you ever meant to be arguing that.
And one more time you post “Bye”, although I expect that you are not actually going away. “you keep responding”: so do you.

So you misread something? Why didn’t you ask if that’s what I mean then?

Yeah, I reacted badly to you, because you completely and repeatedly missed the point I was making. And now you you want to tell me how I should have responded. You’re unreal.

I don’t want to argue, actually. But you keep responding. So, here we are.

Bye Robert.

I read your first post as a lengthy sneer characterizing all the beliefs as frauds, and if that wasn’t what you meant to say then you did not have to shout and get pissy when I replied to you as such. And you certainly don’t need to keep telling me you don’t want to argue, when you obviously do, very much.

Read my first post. Nowhere did I mention anything but weird beliefs, until I allowed you to high-jack this thread.

That is exactly what I said: weird beliefs.

Bye Robert.

No you weren’t just saying that they had weird beliefs, you were saying that they were fraudulent. And you weren’t saying it, you got so you were SHRIEKING it. And you keep saying you don’t want to talk any more, and then you do.

No, I never said that all religions were the same. Never. There you go again, stating things I never said.

I repeat again, seeing as you can’t seem to get what I said:
All religions have some weird beliefs.

Your discussion about the possible origins of some parts of these weird beliefs is in no way anything I am concerned with (in this thread). I erred in ever allowing you to veer the thread in that direction, as it has nothing to do with what I was pointing out.

“But what about this thing you weren’t talking about”.

Bye Robert.

I know you are making the “all religions are the same” argument. I made a simple point about what differences there are, and you won’t even acknowledge what I am saying. And you keep saying “goodbye” but you never go away. I have a different opinion about who has been “condescending” here.

My point that started the thread was that there are weird things in every religion.

That you turned the conversation to some point you wanted to make… I erred in ever responding to your condescending posts.

Simple indeed. How I missed your manipulation is beyond me. I’ll watch out for it in the future.

Goodbye Robert