(October 20, 2015 at 11:16 am)alpha male Wrote:(October 18, 2015 at 9:14 pm)Delicate Wrote: But when the laughter dies down, you're left with a troubling realization: There actually is a huge pool of people on this planet who call themselves atheists and post on the internet, but are less familiar with theism than toddlers with the inside of a quantum mechanics textbook.Here I have to disagree. The pool isn't huge. There's only a few sites with daily posting, and those share some of the same members. In the past few years I've seen two sites go defunct - atheist.net and friendlyatheist. Atheist.net (out of Denmark IIRC) was a pretty good one. By that I mean it had a relatively high quality of debate. But, most internet atheists don't want quality debate. They just want a safe place to mock theists and feel better about themselves.
It gets old, meng. Started in Oct of 2011 on TTAF with a thousand posts in the first month, with fat ol' several paragraph rants; but once you cut away the reactionary release, there really ain't much to say about it. I do not agree with your conclusion that "we just want a place to feel better about ourselves;" mostly I still kick it to socialize with my peeps and to show newly minted atheists that it is OK to be an atheist in a theistic environment.
