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[Jackalope]

I just got suspended from Atheism Plus forum for a week... for this

Seriously? That's messed up. Did they give a reason/rationale for it?

[TaraJo]

I just got suspended from Atheism Plus forum for a week... for this

I'm not sure why you got banned. Were you not being angry enough towards religion? I is confused.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Thanks Atheism+. I didn't think it was possible for me to feel bad for LionIRC.

[TaraJo]

It's pretty stupid. I read their thread and it led me to do a little research on Unitarians.

They were holding Unitarian Universalism responsible for the atrocities of the Bible, right? Wikipedia thinks that's a bad idea. Here's the first two paragraphs on their entry there (emphasis mine):

Unitarian Universalism is a theologically liberal religion characterized by support for a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning".[1] Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth and by the understanding that an individual's theology is a result of that search and not obedience to an authoritarian requirement. Unitarian Universalists draw on many different theological sources and have a wide range of beliefs and practices.
Contemporary Unitarian Universalism espouses a pluralist approach to religious belief, whereby members may describe themselves as atheist, agnostic, ignostic, deist, monotheist, pantheist, polytheist, pagan, or assume no label at all. As of 2006, fewer than about 20% of Unitarian Universalists identified themselves as Christian.[2]

If they had wanted to attack Christian Universalism, that would be a legitimate attack because, yeah, the Bible is filled with some horrible stuff. It's kinda absurd.

[Kayenneh]

Wow.. I don't know what your stance on secular marriages is Lion, but this chick sure made it all about herself really fast.

A "formal" wedding, a "real" minister, which lends the marriage "legitimacy," I suppose, and approval by the privileged theists, unlike my illegitimate atheist wedding nearly 25 years ago, performed by a judge in the back room of a restaurant. Nothing real or formal about my wedding, nuh uh.

These chicks have sticks so far up their butts that soon they'll have twigs growing out of their mouths..

[LastPoet]

Really Kay? I've been leeching that forum for laughs since its first appearance. No comedy site can get to that level

[Kayenneh]

I never said that narcissists and people with sticks up their butts weren't funny

(And don't we all visit their site for the lulz?)

[LastPoet]

If only they could realize how stupid they are...

[TaraJo]

If only they could realize how stupid they are...

That would be like A Theist or the bozo's on Faux News realizing how stupid they are.

[Lion IRC]

I think it was the reference to Adam Lee/Ebonmuse having decided to get married in that church and him ALSO being a member of Atheism Plus forum.
Not sure if they realised that fact before they started in on UU folk demanding to know how they reconcile their universalism with bad/naughty/ebil Christianity.

They turned the blowtorch, (the wrath of Flewellyns' nose-lasers,) onto me when I agreed with Claire-B that core religious values dont include the things we were being asked to defend/reconcile.

I specifically said I hold core religious views and yet I find all of those things The_Laughing_Coyote posted disgusting and abhorrent.

Flewellyn (the Mod) claimed that I was stating something as fact but in a moment of poor reading/comprehension xie conflated the holding of an opinion with an assertion of fact.

The only FACT I had to defend was that I really DO believe those are not core religious values. It is a FACT that I hold that POV.

I did offer to debate the proposition made by The_Laughing_Coyote but I dont think they wanted me to do that.

Then came the....bible says witches should put to death. Thats horrible. ETC.

And I responded along the lines of....only real witches, right? It doesnt say people who ARENT witches should be put to death.

And then in the middle of typing my next post....zap.

On undernet #atheism they would at least give you some warning.

The Chan Ops would let you know a boot was coming....

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It's only a week.
I can hold my breath.