"I think your position is wrong on it's merits but we can't get to discussing it because you take such great offense at me even identifying your position in any way."
There is no need to, as you say "identify your position in any way," if you genuinely find fault with the merits of the statement. If you genuinely find fault with the merits of my statements then expose the flaw in the statement(s). IOW, On what merit do you find the statements I have labeled as truisms to be faulty?
Your presumptions about "My position" are wrong headed. You've been unsuccessful in making your label stick because it has no legitimate basis. Even if it did, it wouldn't advance the discussion one whit. Insisting on such a tac, as you have done, has blocked discourse and denied you any possibility of greater understanding...as I have repeatedly pointed out.
"I am merely trying to understand where you are coming from."
Sorry, but you are lying to yourself. You are and have been ravenously attempting to impose something on me which does not belong, on me. It has something to do with a case you are trying to prove/justify for yourself but it does not belong in this dialogue, as I've reapeatedly pointed out. You would benefit by standing up and talking to me as one adult to another instead of from behind the veiled criteria that a 'dogmatic world view' is required. However, up until now you have declined to do so.
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Your use of the term "Religionism" is a pejorative characterization which you are ascribing to me personally.
My use of the term is according to its most commonly understood meaning. I did ascribe to you this sort of character but you have also identified yourself in the way I positioned the term according to your conduct and declarations. If you find it offensive then be offended but you always have the option to change, grow, and renew your being through greater understanding. To date, you have only shown mocking responses, and refusal to recognize simple statements of truth for what they are. You seem to justify this by comfort with your status quo. An indication that you prefer your current state. People often attempt to justify the unjustifiable and excuse the inexcusable in such a way and such people fit the following commonly accepted meaning of religionism:
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Noun 1. religionism - exaggerated religious zealotry
intolerance - unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs
2. religionism - exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
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religionism
excessive religious ardour or zeal
extreme piety
discrimination or prejudice on the basis of religion or religious beliefs. See: racism, sexism, nationalism
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n.
Excessive or affected religious zeal.
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–noun 1. excessive or exaggerated religious zeal.
2. affected or pretended religious zeal
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noun
religious zeal, esp. when excessive or affected
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