A Love Story For the Ages.

You call it "trolling".

"Putting out content in the interests of eliciting a response to be responded to with ad hom and escalated accordingly while concealing oneself behind a pseudonym."

Nope.  Doesn't fit that definition at all.   Not even close.   While, yes, I use ad hom when engaging with the devout in disassembling their "logic" and positions with regard to the proselytizing of religious and spiritual belief sets, my reasons for doing so have always been clear.   The positions of theists, in general, are so steeped in the most pungent types of antilogic, that their points cannot, and should not, be countered with anything resembling logic.   To do so only provides a false sense of legitimacy to the theist.  Therefore, they got mocked.   Nothing in their worldview, as it relates to their use of "spirituality" or religious dogma warrants a rational response.  It's akin to attempting to debate with someone who is 100% vested in the existence of garden gnomes being "real" and "living" things.   Engaging them with much of anything beyond the standard statement, "There is no truth in anything you're saying" is futile.   This is probably one of the reasons i get so frustrated in watching otherwise intelligent people debate deluded theists on a public stage.   The theists almost never get to walk away from those engagements with their heads hanging down.   They almost always strut off into the distance praising their imaginary deity for vindicating them in the face of the heretic.  

To say I find religious dogma and spiritual beliefs of all forms to be abhorrent, disgusting, and counter to the best parts of what makes us human, is so much of an understatement that it frustrates me to attempt to iterate it here.   It is, in all forms, an affront to common decency and humanity.  

To, in one breath, praise ANY imaginary deity, for ANY reason whatsoever, while acknowledging the ongoing suffering of your fellow human being somewhere else in this world, at any given moment, and then attempt to rationalize that suffering and reconcile it with the benevolence of your deity, is one of the most loathsome practices that any human can engage in, on par with some of the worst people in history who have exacted that very suffering on their own fellow humans.  

That, in this day and age, ANYone would support any institution or notion of religious dogma or subscribe to the institutions which dictate such, and remain tethered to the rituals of those institutions, only serve to label those who choose to remain blind, subservient and willfully ignorant.

So I post content and make comments that are inflammatory.  Yep.   I usually do so with the intent to awaken the devout to the contradictory nature of the beliefs they are espousing at any given moment.  

I won't deny that watching the devout flounder in defense of their ideas is entertaining.  It is.  Almost always.  That's just a fringe benefit of being willing to speak out against that which i find to be a level of stupidity that no one should be forced to live with.   

You'll come back at me with "Live and let live".   No.  I have no obligation to sit back and watch you pray in your houses of worship for anything while the world burns and people suffer horrors beyond your scope of understanding.  Your devotion to and practice of your religious worship serves NO purpose other than to medicate yourself from the otherwise uncomfortable nature of your own existence.  You've done nothing to earn the right to bathe in this placebo and you will be reminded, at every turn, of the brutal reality of this world and your opportunity to petition your deity to immunize you from those horrors will be denied at every opportunity.  You will not be allowed to rationalize your own desires and reconcile them against the fact that your imaginary deity denies the basic tenets of survival to the person next door to you.   You will not be allowed to practice your make believe, free from the mockery of those of us who see it for what it is.  Imaginary.   

Have a splendid day.