"You think that's a valid analogy and you are laughing at me"
"laughing" is an understatement, for sure!
"That is the question this issue revolves around"
No. That was not and is not the question in this issue. This issue revolved around your false and nonsensical statement:
1). That I (and Rand) had called "someone" evil because they did not conform, and
2). That doing what is claimed in premise #1 is "to use force".
("Denouncing and calling someone evil (as both you and Rand have done) because they do not conform to your arbitrarily derived moral construct is to use force.")
That was the issue....arguments about god or morality are other issues.
"As to verbal attacks being considered a form of abuse and yes, force"
Stop being a miscreant. Listing western vices such as intolerance and hate as evil in the header of a thread is not using force. What is the matter with you, anyway??
"true moral praise, if it is to be anything other than emotive and subjective, involves the recognition that one DOES conform to a transcendent and objective moral standard."
Well, now you have moved on to another topic but you are still digging a deeper hole. Whether one is praising virtues (as I did) or criticizing vices (as I did) does not have anything to declare about the theology of transcendency. Nor is writing a book (Rand) or a thread header (me) calling a vice a vice, or a virtue a virtue--criticizing or praising--using FORCE in any way.
"Moral praise on the other hand; also rests on an objective standard, and has the ability to LIFT and inspire individuals."
Again, you are moving to a new topic (and about time) but your comment is silly. My moral praise has often and does often LIFT and inspire individuals and it DOES rest on an objective standard--but it is not necessary that it do so to have those results. Love and affection, for instance, are seldom objectively based yet they can be very uplifting. For instance, if you were rational you might still have no affection for my wife nor I for yours--but that would not diminish the impact your affection and love had upon your wife nor the impact that my affection and love has upon mine.
Once again, if YOU start a thread and state that intolerance and hate are attributes of evil you are MOST ASSUREDLY NOT using any force against intolerant and hateful people. Even if you said in your header that compassionate and affectionate people were evil you would STILL NOT be using any force against anyone--although people would be curious about your philosophy, I am sure...
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