Paranoid?
Alright, so as of yesterday, when I returned to that portion of my site, the question I had asked regarding Rule#11 was not there. When I clicked on my own name, my profile stated that I had made 3 postings (a counter I assume), but only had links to two of them. That lead me to the reasonable assumption that perhaps your watchdogs had already deleted it.
I've also said a few times that this is sort of the beginning of my journy into forums, ususally I'm a blogger type of a fellow, so it could be that I just got a bit turned around in your Index. I'm not finding navigation in the pup all that intuitive.
Of course, I'm sure that you administrators have the types of powers that permit the restoration of deleted material; making me look foolish and paranoid would do a lot to help you preserve the upper hand in any debates that were to unfold. After all, you did take the time to imply that I might need psychological counseling, that I'm self-centered, and that I believe that I'm superior and thus above the rules of your forum.
I'm sure that what we're dealing with here, however, is just an honest mistake on my part. Now that I have a bit more of a reassurance that my comments here will not be deleted out of hand, I'd like to contine with my mission to help my fellow sentient beings come to a bit more complicated understanding of the bible and of life.
Perhaps I am a bit paranoid. As an atheist, I have to deal with the bias and rejection of the less jesus-like christians every single day. I have people who assume that because I don't believe in god I have no morals whatsoever and would kill them in a heartbeat if I thought I could get away with it. Folks assume I'm a liar or - what I really find painful - that I must be depressed as my life has no meaning. . . anyways, I digress.
I put a lot of my soul into whatever I write, particularily when I'm debating religion and the spiritual. You'd have to grant me that I'm coming into hostile territory here, if I wanted to I could just spend all my time on the two or three atheist blogs that I found out there. As a guest here, I could have anything I write deleted at any time, and so a bit of paranoia may be justified.
I have a busy weekend of socializing and romantic endeavors, I'll try to post my first criticism of the bible's many self-contradictions by Monday or Tuesday evening. How can a work that is supposedly dictated directly by an omnipotent and omniscecnt diety contain so many instances where authors contradict each other, themselves, or all other recorded history? What does this imply about an institution that trains their children 'the bible is the infallible word of God', when any serious biblical scholar knows full well that these inaccuracies exist?
Thanks for your time.