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Why do I hear Dueling Banjos?
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A Light in the Darkness wrote:It's a strange refrain from an atheist, a person holding one of the most abnormal positions on religion and God on the planet.


Come again?
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Who Knows wrote:
A Light in the Darkness wrote:It's a strange refrain from an atheist, a person holding one of the most abnormal positions on religion and God on the planet.


Come again?


Atheists make up roughly 3% of the population. 97% disagree with them. I think that would qualify as "abnormal." I guess it's Ok to point out and mock how not normal Mormons are compared to the normal world, but when it is simply pointed out that grayskull isn't really normal either when it comes to religion, that's just wrong, wrong, wrong!
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A Light in the Darkness wrote:
Who Knows wrote:
A Light in the Darkness wrote:It's a strange refrain from an atheist, a person holding one of the most abnormal positions on religion and God on the planet.


Come again?


Atheists make up roughly 3% of the population. 97% disagree with them. I think that would qualify as "abnormal." I guess it's Ok to point out and mock how not normal Mormons are compared to the normal world, but when it is simply pointed out that grayskull isn't really normal either when it comes to religion, that's just wrong, wrong, wrong!


I don't recall anyone calling Mormons "abnormal" here. Where are you getting that?
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Runtu wrote:Why do I hear Dueling Banjos?


The writing seems too clean, orderly and free of typos to be him, imho. The rhetorical positioning and aggression are quite similar, though.
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I don't recall anyone calling Mormons "abnormal" here. Where are you getting that?


Gray's parting shots on LDS involve contrasting them against normal folks like him. Abnormal is the opposite of normal.
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A Light in the Darkness wrote:
I don't recall anyone calling Mormons "abnormal" here. Where are you getting that?


Gray's parting shots on LDS involve contrasting them against normal folks like him. Abnormal is the opposite of normal.


Fair enough.
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So the board has another disgruntled TBM, another "light in the darkness" (Mormonsim being the light, the rest of us being in the dark).

Yay! I feel like it's my birthday.
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Post by _A Light in the Darkness »

(Mormonsim being the light, the rest of us being in the dark).


For someone who decries "assumptions" so, you seem to be full of them. This helps explain why you fixated on my screen name incorrectly in the other thread. Let me help you here: Despite my religious affiliations, you are wrong about its meaning.
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I'm wrong that you are a light in the darkness?

Thanks for the clarification.
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