To avoid being gay, just remember to post something every now and then. Posting something is easy, and it only takes a few minutes! If you don't have anything to submit, then something is really wrong with you and you're different and strange. Everyone else has material to submit.
Anyway, here is some material I'm going to submit: a guy who genuinely believes anyone who rationalizes Christianity is a schitzophrenic. Just listen to some of the insane craklings of someone who isn't even a regocnized mental health professional.... here are some of the books he'd read on the topic (note how few are actually related to the topic!):
Alanen, Yrjö O., Schizophrenia: It’s Origins and Need-Adapted Treatment trans. Sirkka-Liisa Leinonen (London: Karnac, 1997)
Albl, Martin, “For Whenever I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong”: Disability in Paul’s Epistles, This Abled Body ed. Gale A Yee, et al (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007)
Allen, Mike and Calderone, Michael, Politico, “McClellan points finger at Bush, Rove,” 21 Nov 2007, 30 Nov 2007, <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6994.html>
American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR (Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000)
Altemeyer, Robert, The Authoritarians, 2006, 1 Mar 2006 <http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/>
Aurelius, Marcus, Meditations (Chicago: Gateway, 1968)
Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, A History of American Christianity (New York: The Christian Literature Co., 1897)
Beecher, Lyman, Autobiography, Correspondence, Etc., of Lyman Beecher, D.D. (New York: Harper, 1804)
Bernheim, Kayla F. and Lewine, Richard R. J., Schizophrenia (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1979)
Carrier, Richard, A Fish Did Not Write This Essay, Freethought Today, Sept. 1995: 8.
Sense and Goodness Without God (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2005)
The Plausibility of Theft, The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave ed. Robert M. Price and Jeffrey Jay Lowder (Amherst: Prometheus, 2005) 349-68.
Christian, C.W., Friedrich Schleiermacher (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1979)
Clifford, William Kingdon, The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays (New York: Prometheus Books, 1999)
Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton (New York: Penguin, 2004)
Collins, Francis S., The Language of God, A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, (New York: Free Press, 2006)
Dawkins, Richard, The God Delusion, (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Dean, John W., Conservatives Without Conscience (New York: Viking, 2006)
Dennett, Daniel C., Breaking the Spell (New York: Viking, 2006)
Dobson, Dr. James, Dare to Discipline, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1970)
Dorman, Daniel, M.D. Dante's Cure, a Journey of Madness (New York: Other Press, 2003)
Earll, Steven, Focus on the Family. Pure Intimacy, “Five Criteria for Addiction Assessment”, 2004, 16 Oct 2006 <http://www.pureintimacy.org/gr/intimacy/understanding/a0000132.cfm>
Ehrman, Bart D., Misquoting Jesus (New York: HarperCollins, 2005)
Foucault, Michel, The Archeology of Knowledge trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon, 1972)
Geisler, Norman L. and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist (Wheaton: Crossway, 2004)
Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2002)
Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2005)
Gore, Al, The Assault on Reason, (New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2007)
Graham, Billy, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, “Steps to Peace,” 2007, 29 Oct 2007 <http://www.billygraham.org/SH_StepsToPeace.asp>
Greene, Robert, Power (New York: Penguin, 1998)
Grimstead, Jay, “A Manifesto for the Christian Church,” 16 Oct 2005 <http://www.reformation.net/cor/cordocs/Manifesto.pdf>
Grimstead, Jay, “How the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy Began,” 16 Oct 2005 <http://www.reformation.net/cor/ICBIbkgrnd.htm>
Halliday, David, and Robert Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics, 2nd Ed. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981)
Hatfield, Agnes B. and Harriet P. Lefley, Surviving Mental Illness: Stress, Coping and Adaptation (New York: Guildford Press, 1993)
Hofstader, Douglas R., Gödel, Escher, Bach (New York: Vintage, 1980)
Holmes, Arthur F., Ethics (Downers Grove, IL: Inter Varsity Press, 1984)
International Bible Society, Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984)
Isaacson, Walter, Einstein (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007)
James, William, The Will to Believe (New York: Dover Publications, 1956) originally published 1897.
Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990)
Jefferson, Thomas, Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (New York: The Modern Library, 1958)
Kaplan, Harold I, MD, and Benjamin J. Sadock, MD, Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1994)
Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), Mere Christianity (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1980)
MacArthur, John, The MacArthur Study Bible (Nashville: Word, 1997)
Mack, Burton, Who Wrote the New Testament (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996)
Marty, Martin, A Short History of Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987)
McDowell, Josh, Evidence That Demands a Verdict, (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publisher, 1979)
McDowell, Josh, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999)
Myers, David G., Intuition (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2002)
Noll, Mark, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans, 1992)
Noll, Mark, Between Faith and Criticism: Evangelicals, Scholarship, and the Bible in America (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004)
Noll, Mark, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans, 1994)
Paine, Thomas, Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896)
Pelikan, Jaroslav, Whose Bible Is It? (New York: Penguin, 2006)
Pinker, Steven, How the Mind Works (New York: Norton, 1997)
It gets better. When asked for how to diagnose a schitzo, he says this:
Schizophrenics cannot really answer the question who am I? They have little or no sense of what they are, who they are or what they want to be. Often they feel toxic and even dead. This does not make them reliable to make decision about their experiences as they have little sense of self-- as a result they take cues from external sources (real and imagined) for example imagine an unattractive shy man at 22 who has never kissed a girl. He may hang out with people who truly chose to abstain from sex, but did he choose this? He may act as though this was his choice, but it is an act. What happens if a hot woman propositions him? Now what? He may want to act, but now feels inadequate, scared and acutely aware of inexperience. What is this man sexual identity. Chaste heterosexual? Promiscuous sex addict without the opportunity?
Ironically, he has yet to answer a person asking him the very question he claims diagnoses this disorder.
The apologist he is calling schitzophrenic had this to say about him...
Since you're too stupid to have even known what a "troll" was, it is obviously a counsel of despair to suppose you could understand anything as complex as atonement theories. The problem is that you also assume everyone else is as stupid as you are.
His response?
how does not knowing what an Internet troll provide sufficient evidence that I am stupid? After all this is 'cherry picking' to an extreme.
The TL;DR version: I invited him to the chatrooms to see if he'll call us schitzophrenic, or even show up if he's got the guts. Hopefully he'll provide as many laughs to us as he did Atheists at ironchariots.org and the Christians at TheologyWeb.
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