RE: Quite a shame how people respond
April 25, 2013 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2013 at 12:09 am by A_Nony_Mouse.)
(April 25, 2013 at 1:50 pm)lordxenu Wrote: Hi guys.
I've been noticing something bad in almost every thread I go into.
The thread starts usually with something a religious person asks about or posts. And what follows is a long thread of ridicule and senseless attacks.
I am noticing more an more threads that never seem to attack the question and the issue at hand. Threads filled with cheap jokes and insults. Posts that are nothing more than a link or a pair of sentences that don't contribute to the debate.
Meanwhile the religious people use those posts to later on claim that they had a "discussion" on an atheist oriented forum and they won the arguments!
"See", they would say; "I posted some of my religious proof and BOOM! Atheists didn't know what to respond".
Come on guys!
You want to comment on a news piece, do so, but with respect to the readers. Maybe write about how morality should not be derived from holy books and how that piece of news contradicted human rights, the teaching of the people who did something...
Atheists are supposed to be the elite of the educated masses. We are supposed to spread knowledge, not ridicule.
Actually I find the responses remarkably limited to the nature of the post not the ad hominem which you appear to suggest. I can't say much as a newbie but I have seen a lot of this stuff from believers and it would take superhuman restraint to treat the latest repetition of arguments refuted centuries ago ONE MORE TIME.
If they are not prepared to be here do not post. It you post without reading do not expect to be treated as other than a person who has read the material. The believer crap we get here is often so old that their fellow believers considered them heresies. It is not clear why you expect better from this forum.
