(February 4, 2012 at 12:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Having been on Muslim forums, my experience is that atheists have to be like mice to avoid getting banned and they pile up on you in the introduction section just for saying you're an atheist. I saw absolutely no presumption of respect. I'm a member in good standing only because I wasn't there to do what Zakir has done: tell them they're wrong and demand they justify why they don't hold my position. We are already showing Christians and Muslims more respect than they show us: we let them try to make their case and don't ban them for such offenses as: disrespecting atheism, asserting God exists, saying something admiring about God or Jesus or Mohammed. It's not because we're better, we just aren't offended by stuff like that. We're offended by people who can't be bothered to try to do a good job of arguing with us. Seriously, it's about the only thing I see us griping about: bad arguments.
Thus the reason why I pointed out the usual theist n00b posts:
#1 - step in and claim you used to be an atheist (Damascus road conversions are still very popular with this crowd)
#2 - Give some lame argument for why you converted to whatever superstition you currently hold (This is usually either some circumstantial assumption or the tired old Pascal's Wager or both)
#3 - Take a big shit in the middle of the forum floor (this is when they dump all of their tired old bible verses on us like we have never seen or heard of them before)
#4 - Demand that we change our rules and attitudes to give THEM the benefit of the doubt by claims of being persecuted.
#5 - Leave and never look back or care. They wash their hands and feet of the situation.
Thus we are stuck cleaning up the big pile of shit that they dropped their pants and farted out onto the forum floor, but at least we all get a laugh at how naive they are to think that we have never heard the same farts from the ten thousand last fundies who came through and did the same thing.
