Too Much Vinegar?

Joe Cool writes

As much fun as it is to read the fuming and thunder, I really can’t imagine these last couple of posts actually convincing anyone who doesn’t already agree with the premise. What was the tone of the argument that, as an atheist, convinced you of the merits of virtue and chastity? Was it the thundering denouncements of the evil of fornication? Or was it something a bit calmer and more heartfelt? I wonder, if you were stranded on a desert island with a cad or a harlot, and as such must put up with this person for the foreseeable future, how you would convince him of the merits of your position, without convincing him that you’re also a judgmental blow hard? (Not that I’m saying you are; merely that you might come off like that to someone not predisposed to agree with you.)

Yes, I have read your Apologia Pro Opere Sui, and would swear by it, were that not blasphemous. I just have a hard time recommending it to the unenlightened, because it’s so difficult to make it through the dense legalese.

So I wonder what the purpose of your last two posts has been. Is it just to let out some steam, and entertain us all with the rhetoric in the process? If so, mission accomplished.

My comment: Your comment is well said and well taken. It is hard for a man to judge his own words, so I cannot tell when I am coming across with too much vinegar and when not.

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