Hello Everyone

[Mister Agenda]

Hey, Shai, thanks for stopping by. I hope you like what we've done with the place.

Thanks Mister Agenda!  It looks like a pretty nice place.  Must admit to holding my tongue in another intro thread when someone said a Christian forum would kick off atheists really quick though. One Catholic board I'm on has had an atheist poster since 2006, and he's not banned yet.  Do you mind if I inquire, what is the agenda?  Is it the....atheist agenda...that all the Evangelical megachurch leaders insist is real?

I like when people participate in their own threads. I imagine the criticism about Christian boards applies more to fundagelical boards than to Catholics.

The name hasn't much significance. The first board I was on was the Hero Games Discussion Board, and I thought Doctor Agenda sounded super-villain-ish. I modified it a little for this board (I don't actually have a doctorate) and mainly kept it because I can be a little naïve and forget that sometimes people have hidden agendas, my handle reminds me of that when I think of it.

There's something to the 'atheist agenda' though in that there's a combination of things most atheists in America at least tacitly support: separation of government and religion, equal treatment of atheists in the eyes of the law; and education, science, and reasonable skepticism. Of course you don't have to be an atheist to support all those things and some atheists don't support all, or even any, of them.