Just a small thread to find out your opinions about how atheists or agnostics would be treated on religious forums. I have never been a member of any particular religious forum, and to be honest, this is a first for me being on here; a none theistic forum. I find that the tolerance level of religious pretty good and there is a great deal of banter to be had.

So, have any of you ever experienced the same sort of tolerances towards the fact that you maybe atheist, anti-theist, agnostic etc on a religious forum, or have you been banned because of your views? I would like to add a poll but it seems that I cannot. However, if someone can, then I would like the options to be the types of religious forums i.e. Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, baptist, Islam, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist etc etc.

Many thanks in advance.

There have been many threads about this.

Theist forums tend to be overly intolerant toward any discussion of that which directly opposes what they believe and atheists on theist forums are usually banned after making an introduction thread.

Never done it, don't have any desire to.

But I have heard from many here that have that it is rarely a worthwhile venture. Banning can happen quickly and with little reason. Sometimes you'll be banned if you even say you're an atheist. Other times people can coexist for a long time without repercussion.

Forums in general (including most atheist forums) tend to be pretty insular.

(March 17, 2015 at 4:49 pm)Sionnach Wrote: There have been many threads about this.

Theist forums tend to be overly intolerant toward any discussion of that which directly opposes what they believe and atheists on theist forums are usually banned after making an introduction thread.

Many thanks for your reply and thanks for pointing out that there have been many threads already about it. If a kind moderator could actually delete this thread, I would be most grateful.

In saying that, I wouldn't mind testing the water, so to speak, to see what sort of reaction I would get.

(March 17, 2015 at 4:51 pm)RobertE Wrote: In saying that, I wouldn't mind testing the water, so to speak, to see what sort of reaction I would get.

In most cases you would be banned. In any case, it sounds like the same kind of fun experience as smashing your head against a wall. I'm no missionary and so I really don't see any reason to visit one of their boards. I get all I need to know about bible literalists right here in a neat little nutshell. Sometimes more than I bargained for as can be shown by looking at more recent threads about all loving homicidal god.

I joined several theist forums with the intent to engage in honest discussions. I am honestly interested in what people believe and why they believe it.

I never cussed (Christians have the ability to ignore evidence and logical argument if any profanity is used) and never insulted. All I did was ask honest questions, respond to their questions honestly, and point out fallacies and inaccuracies.

The longest I ever lasted was probably about 10 posts. Banned every time.

If their kids turn out atheist, they probably ban them too. They're not even worth the time of day any more, kick them out the house at age 10 for not bowing down to your horse shit.

Jesus would be proud.

(March 19, 2015 at 12:57 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I joined several theist forums with the intent to engage in honest discussions. I am honestly interested in what people believe and why they believe it.

I never cussed (Christians have the ability to ignore evidence and logical argument if any profanity is used) and never insulted. All I did was ask honest questions, respond to their questions honestly, and point out fallacies and inaccuracies.

The longest I ever lasted was probably about 10 posts. Banned every time.

I have a great plan in mind. I might join a catholic one and an Islamic one, and just post honestly and join in debates. I will not let on as to who I am or what my beliefs (or a lack of) are and if all is good and everything moves swimmingly, I will feed them some false information, just to make things interesting i.e. things that both Catholics and Muslims hate. Then we will see which forum would ban me first.

I've wondered how they would react to someone evincing more piety and fealty than their regulars do, but haven't bothered. It's one thing to ban a nonbeliever, but to nail someone for vivid Literalism would be interesting.

I joined an Islamic forum, because I work with children whose parents are Muslims. I was not banned, but I did walk on eggs to manage it. It helped that my purpose was not to debate Islam, though since I was openly atheist I did have to fend off a few barking dogs out to preserve the purity of their forum.