(December 27, 2015 at 6:23 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: GiL- All jokes aside, if you're truly here to understand us better, to get to know us directly instead of believing the slanderous bullshit too many preachers and religious zealots assign to us (we make jokes about atheists eating babies, as a way of satirising these accusations), then you are more than welcome among us.
Unfortunately, we get a constant influx of bigots who come here full of those misconceptions, and rather than seeking to learn, they actually come here to preach and to tell us what we "really" think/feel/believe. If you're in that category, stand by for a massive backlash...we're sick of it!
Even if you're not in that category, I hope you have a thick skin. So many Christian zealots come here to abuse us, using so many deceptions to try to achieve their abusive ends, that few of us are quick to trust.
I hope you're one of the rate theists who listens and treats us as equally human and deserving of respect. We value the theists who do so; they are as much members of this community as any atheist. That's because atheism itself isn't a thing, but a lack of a thing, so our community isn't formed by mutual atheism but by mutual respect and intellectual inter/discourse.
Where you fit in (or don't) is entirely up to you.
Thanks @TheRocketSurgeon. I hear to learn more about atheism and not to preach, as Christianity is my personal belief and I have no rights to push it onto other people. Sincere apologies if my entry post was a bit offline - I shouldn't have put the "end times" phrase in it - as I didn't know that atheists do not belief in end times.
