What the bible says Hell is like

[TheRocketSurgeon]

It was Deistpaladin on April fools, and he is - or was last I checked - a deist not an atheist.

He said kudos to the first one who guessed it was him and I guessed saying it was him in a PM... I recognized his particular typing habits and idiosyncrasies. I can't remember what it was but he said some catchphrase that only Deistpaladin ever says. He was a great debater and I was a fan.

Anyway, it was for April fools and was a one off thing done by the staff. And he's a he.

Unless there's Piuspaladin as well? It was more than a few months back I thought too!

No, i'm talking about this person:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-34272.html

C_L - Note the bottom post by Rexbeccarox about loathing dishonesty, on that first page, and the huge number of "Kudos" agreements it got from other atheists on this site.

It's uncommon for an atheist to do that, and we disdain those who do (except those who do it for a fun, specific thing, like April Fool's Day), since generally we have no cause to do it. Almost without fail, a Poe is actually a religious extremist. It's the fact that it's so common that makes a person occasionally want to try it out for entertainment purposes, just to see what it's like to say things that crazy and watch people react to it, but I think it's a psychologically disturbed state, almost bordering on sociopathy, to manipulate people dishonestly for your own entertainment. 

Perhaps I evaluate Poe candidates as usually being fundies rather than fakers is because I am hesitant to believe so low of human beings. If they're a fundie, I only have to pity them, because they have swallowed the poisoned Kool-Aid of fundamentalism and switched off their minds... but if they're a borderline sociopath, I am compelled to loathe them. And I don't want that.