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Apparently (according to this book), you can only be a good dad and raise a proper son, if you subscribe to specific religious beliefs.

Where is the free book on "How to get a life by not correcting everyone's grammar and word usage".

Lots of pissy people on this morning, no problem.

I'm bad for picking apart grammar which I would have NEVER done had he not been bashing ANY form of religion, even atheism, because beliefs and faith are a freedom we have in the U.S., our soldiers fight and die for that right, so to even infer that someone is "wrong" or something is "not a deal" simply because the belief system isn't relevant to you: pretty terrible, so I replied to his post and yes.. picked apart the grammar.

Speaking of which: No, subscribe was not the right context for his post.

Sure, the author is biased, almost every person in the world is biased at some point or another, are we going to stop buying things at a great discount or significant savings because the person who made it or sells it doesn't lean the same way as you? Seems pretty silly to me, and the "Hot Deals" forums just really aren't a great area to even interject the religion statement to begin with, so if he didn't want that post to be picked apart WHY ON EARTH did he put ANYTHING re: religion/faith in his post here? There are off-topic threads and sub-forums for those sorts of things....

Yes, please more red, I deserve it because I am annoyed by people who trash hot deal threads with gibberish about politics, faith, rights, etc etc.

I don't understand why so many people feel the need to threadcrap every chance they get in a site devoted to us all working together to save some dough.

Start clicking that red button guys, prove my point for me.

Thanks OP.

ebbikenezer said:   Lots of pissy people on this morning, no problem.

I'm bad for picking apart grammar which I would have NEVER done had he not been bashing ANY form of religion, even atheism, because beliefs and faith are a freedom we have in the U.S., our soldiers fight and die for that right, so to even infer that someone is "wrong" or something is "not a deal" simply because the belief system isn't relevant to you: pretty terrible, so I replied to his post and yes.. picked apart the grammar...I don't understand why so many people feel the need to threadcrap every chance they get in a site devoted to us all working together to save some dough...I was not thread crapping, nor did I bash anyone's religion.

I merely commented on a fallacy (IMHO) in the thinking behind this book. The fallacy being, that a specific belief system is the key to success. From what I can discern from the reviews and summary, this author doesn't feel that ANY spiritual belief/superstition helps you be a better person, but that only one specific belief system is the key.

With that in mind, this is not a Hot Deal (again, IMHO) and I used a comment to voice that thought. Sometimes even free isn't a hot deal.

I have a feeling that the OP would have been swimming in red, if this book covering the same topic, said that a belief in Buddhism or Islam (or Wiccan) was the key,

BTW, if you are going to correct grammar, do more than a little cursory research;

"Ascribe" is always a transitive verb (not correct for my original sentence)

"Subscribe" when used as an intransitive verb, can mean: "to feel favorably disposed" (Merriam-Webster) or "to support view, to support or believe in a theory or view" (Bing) "those who subscribe to progressive ideals"

I could have said, “The author ascribes his success as a father to his strong faith in Christianity.”