Hi There

[TheRocketSurgeon]

You truly are welcome, Christian person. It's true. There are other Christians here. Hold on to your socks, because you'll be surprised. 

  nah! Welcome. It's cozy here. Grab a onesie and make yourself comfortable. Just don't forget that you aren't allowed near the off topic section if you don't rep me first. Oh, and you can't use the words "fact", "theory", or "Bible" unless you give me a rep. Welcome, truly.

Thanks. What's a rep?

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You truly are welcome, Christian person. It's true. There are other Christians here. Hold on to your socks, because you'll be surprised. 

  nah! Welcome. It's cozy here. Grab a onesie and make yourself comfortable. Just don't forget that you aren't allowed near the off topic section if you don't rep me first. Oh, and you can't use the words "fact", "theory", or "Bible" unless you give me a rep. Welcome, truly.

Thanks. Not sure what you mean here. Could you elaborate?

Rep = Reputation Points. You can score people for good posts, or if you really like the quality of their work. In fact, for a while (he decided to stop coming here, sadly), the highest-repped person I knew on an atheism board was a Christian. But he was honest, respectful, and did not treat us as inferior, the way most Christians do, nor saw us as enemies in some ideological war. That's a big start. Mamacita was just pulling your chain. 

The reason she used the terms "fact", "theory", and "Bible" is that we have many, many, many Christians come here (briefly), and sling the first two terms around incorrectly, to our extreme annoyance, and then use "Bible" to justify their beliefs when they get called out on some BS. The same goes for the earlier reference to "Objective Morality", which is the latest fad for apologetics fans, claiming they have the lock on "objective" morality, while all of us have "subjective" (and thus inferior) moral codes... essentially, it is a claim that Christians are inherently more moral people than non-believers. If you can't understand why this sticks in our craw, well, this may not be the place for you. Here's a made-up example of the type of exchange I'm talking about:

"Well DNA had to have a Designer because DNA is information, and it's a fact that information only comes from intelligence."

"That's not a fact, that's just an assertion. We absolutely don't know that for a fact, and from what we've seen of how DNA operates, it seems to be a try/fail/succeed system that operates blindly, with the ones that don't have better information losing to those who do. This suggests that it is a blind, unintelligent process that only looks deliberately ordered, at first glance, to our pattern-seeking hunter-gatherer brains."

"I believe I am the intelligently designed masterpiece of the Creator because the Bible tells me so."

"Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhh, I see. Impervious to reason. Got it." 

So, stick around long enough and you'll figure out the tone of the place, so to speak, and it'll be harder to jerk your chain. Don't take it personally; we do it to one another constantly.