See, you don't know anything about me. I never said I was an atheist an I never heard of Golden Bough. You are making things up, as usual. If I remember correctly, I asked you not to post to me and if not, I say it now. Making personal attacks and unsubstantiated claims doesn't contribute to a discussion of a topic.
So the question is do you have the confidence in your position, or your theology, or your ideology to admit and describe it openly? Why keep it a secret?
Can it withstand scrutiny, and can you support the burden of honesty and sincerity?
1) I know you've claimed your not an atheist: in an earlier post #1704 you wrote to me that you weren't.
And for my retort, I was personally admonished in post #1708 by the Admin Moderator.
And on earlier threads you have posts such as this one, #12.
But I've never run across any practicing Christian who (attempting to make, or to bolster their *own* positions), quoted from atheist sites, as it appears you have donein this post #162 and the link to John Adams, Letter to F.A. VanDerKamp; nor again one refers to "praying to an imaginary God" as you did here post #803; nor one who alternately attacked incest (here, post #17) and then reversed tack, using close parsing of the text to argue that father-daughter incest is not forbidden (here, post #192).
So at the very least, you're not always dealing from either the top or the bottom of the deck.
Note the substantiation of the claims that your posting history has changed from more orthodox to...unusual.
SO, in the future, if I do refer to you or to your posts while commenting to another party on an open thread, would you like a courtesy ping, or not?
Cheers!