(May 10, 2017 at 5:13 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: 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.
Thanks, it seems polite, one would think to do so. And while I hope you're right on the criticism of Christian boards, I had to read a reminder that Catholic ones aren't immune, right before reading your post. In a thread about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, someone got accused of blasphemy for asking what Jesus would look like as a pony, and someone else said if we extend that to the whole Mass as well, it would be iconoclasm.
Confession: I have a horrible time figuring out where the line is on blasphemy.That's a nice origin story on your screen name, very nice thing to remember with people having agendas, heh. Though supervillains do have all the fun stuff. Even if they tend to not be the best. On the atheist agenda, fair points. Also well put that one doesn't have to be an atheist to support all those things, and some don't support all/some of them. There are a number of churches that wouldn't touch my filthy Papist money, but FFRF seems to have no issue with it.
