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Alex. Thank you for giving the link to the thread. Normally, people who misquote to mislead make it hard to find the original.

But that makes me wonder WHY you felt it necessary to be so misleading. Did you think you were actually being accurate, or did you think nobody would follow the link?

Anyway, here is the entire quote. For the record, if you put a period INSIDE a quote, in a place where there was no period before, you are supposed to put three dots (...) to show you are deleting stuff.

from the link you gave:

Alex, I don't appreciate the participation with the little cabal that you've exhibitted, but I have seen you elsewhere and in other contexts we have agreed.
I don't know what to think about those like you. Religion-bashing is apparently not your hobby, but you've said some hurtful things.

Your partial quote gave the misleading impression that he was saying you were a mystery because you didn't bash religion.

When in fact he was trying to be NICE to you, noting that he had not previously seen you as someone to bash people for their religion -- but one who had nevertheless done so in this case.

I am NOT making a value judgment on whether his claim about you were true or not. I am noting that your quote is out of context, and left out an important part, and the period misled people to think you gave an entire sentence of the quote, which gave it an opposite meaning from the one he meant.

And also, just as a courtesy, you should have pinged Illbay since you were attacking something he said.