Message to any religious users regarding Violence in our community.

[Homeless Nutter]

@ IanHulett,I appreciate what you had to say, but do not be to naive, I've been threatened on this forum, unfortunately, by physical violence.[...]

lol....

Didn't you threaten to beat Jacob up in order to prove his "mortality" only yesterday? Hypocritical much? Oh, sorry - I forgot who I was talking to... Please - do carry on.

[The Valkyrie]

@ IanHulett,I appreciate what you had to say, but do not be to naive, I've been threatened on this forum, unfortunately, by physical violence.[...]

lol....

Didn't you threaten to beat Jacob up in order to prove his "mortality" only yesterday? Hypocritical much? Oh, sorry - I forgot who I was talking to... Please - do carry on.

It doesn't count when the threat is directed at us because it's for our "own good".

[IanHulett]

Huh. I don't remember lumping you all together, considering I don't like equating innocent people to terrorists. I remember debuking/criticizing some of your responses to my threads rather aggressively, but I don't remember saying you are all the same. I'm not saying I didn't, but I am saying I don't remember doing it if I did. I'll probably remember if I come across it somewhere down the road.

Sorry it seemed as if I was pointing at you alone, it was meant for all the atheist here, it goes on every day here, there are some here that know they are the ones I was referring to. We should never lump people into one bad pile because there's a few bad apples. Some here consider me a rotten apple because I want give into their way of thinking, to compromise would be dishonest to myself and I just can't do that.

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I don't condone threats either. I sometimes slip up when I'm angry, but I usually admit that I said it out of anger and apologize to whomever I threatened. It's rare that I slip though, but when I do, I'm quick to apologize.

[Godscreated]

@ IanHulett,I appreciate what you had to say, but do not be to naive, I've been threatened on this forum, unfortunately, by physical violence.[...]

lol....

Didn't you threaten to beat Jacob up in order to prove his "mortality" only yesterday? Hypocritical much? Oh, sorry - I forgot who I was talking to... Please - do carry on.

You all said that not me. Go back and read what I posted. give a man enough rope and he will come to the conclusion he wants to see. You guys draw conclusions like that all the time, you might try thinking before you jump into the fire.

GC

[Lek]

Considering.... we are the most peaceful people on the planet, while theists are the majority in prisons while atheists are a minor percentage. atheists are violence compared to the overall theist statistics, theists are the most violent people.

How do support your claim that atheists are the most peaceful people on the planet?

[downbeatplumb]

No one should threaten anyone with physical violence.

I'm gonna kick the ass of the next person threatening violence.

[Nope]

No one should threaten anyone with physical violence.

I'm gonna kick the ass of the next person threatening violence.

That will teach them to be peaceful and nonviolent

[Brian37]

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I'm glad that this is rare, but it still pisses me off that there are self-proclaimed atheists and anti-theists going around committing violence like that guy who assaulted that ohio pastor, or Hicks who goes around killing muslim people, claiming they're doing it "in the name of" atheism and/or anti-theism, or maybe I'm strawmanning, I don't know what these people are really thinking when they do these things. We're trying to get rid of this crap, and we keep trying to tell you guys that we're a peaceful group and tell the religious extremists that we won't take their sh*t, but then these morons come around and start committing physical attacks on you guys and now in addition to having to condemn religious extremists, we have to go around telling you that we won't accept the a**hats that commit violence who identify in our community.

{snip}, and any other religious people who have an account here, or who are visiting here from a google search or whatever, who are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Amish/Mennonite, or whatever religion you subscribe to, I need to tell you, I may be an anti-theist, and believe religion is harmful in most cases, and may even mock religion and call religion a cult or whatever, but I'm sure I can speak for a decent number of fellow atheists and anti-theists here when I say that this community doesn't support violence of any kind. Whenever an a**hole pops his ugly face and attacks or kills a religious person, we are that quick to disown this person. We condemn violence everywhere. We condemn it wherever it comes up outside our community, and we especially condemn it when it comes from within our own community, however rare they come up.

We're a peaceful community and prefer to solve our differences with words, NOT our fists. We disassociate ourselves from violence of any kind, I can't stress this enough. Fortunately these people are a rare occurance in our community and we rarely have to deal with them. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

</end rant>

Sorry if I upset anybody. I feel as though I needed to post this.

Um no, we are not a "group". Humans are individuals first. We do form groups yes, but that is evolutionary. The word "atheist" is a position, the "off" position on god claims. It is not a moral code. It is not a religion. It is not a political party. It is not a loyalty oath.

Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution, not the labels we assign ourselves or each other.

It sucks that another person holding the "atheist" label did what they did. But that does not make any individual automatically good or bad, only our actions do that.

[Lek]

Um no, we are not a "group". Humans are individuals first. We do form groups yes, but that is evolutionary. The word "atheist" is a position, the "off" position on god claims. It is not a moral code. It is not a religion. It is not a political party. It is not a loyalty oath.

Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution, not the labels we assign ourselves or each other.

It sucks that another person holding the "atheist" label did what they did. But that does not make any individual automatically good or bad, only our actions do that.

I'm glad that you made that point clear.

[CapnAwesome]

@ IanHulett,I appreciate what you had to say, but do not be to naive, I've been threatened on this forum, unfortunately, by physical violence.[...]

lol....

Didn't you threaten to beat Jacob up in order to prove his "mortality" only yesterday? Hypocritical much? Oh, sorry - I forgot who I was talking to... Please - do carry on.

Christians love to play the victim. They have amazing selective amnesia. For example they will never shut up about relatively few years that a small amount of them were persecuted by the Romans, but seem to not remember the 2000 years of slavery, genocide and persecution against non-christians that followed. Godschild probably threatened someone with violence, the threat was returned and he just doesn't remember his original threat.