A Question From Atheists

[Mister Agenda]

I wonder if there will ever be a theist visiting us, opening with 'I want to know what you think', who will ever actually ask us what we think without telling us what we think?

I'm sorry that you don't like the way it went.

It went exactly as I have learned to expect it to go. I'm not particularly disappointed you weren't an exception, my comment was general.

You see, I mentioned the idea of pantheism and I learned that you guys might not be quite familiar with the concept of god in pantheism which is drastically different from the western Judeo-Christian god.

How did you learn that we might not be quite familiar with the concept of god in pantheism? What would possess you to think that topic has never, ever come up here before?

So I thought it's a good idea to try to explain pantheism and discuss that maybe the existence of god in pantheism cannot be negated in atheism.

Is there a more arrogant way you could have approached that? Personally, I can't think of one. But you could have been more rude, I appreciate you at least didn't scream at us.

Anyways, I'll try to be more observant in my future post, thank you for bringing this up.

It's a really basic courtesy, not to assume that your audience is ignorant or has never given any thought to what's on your mind, or that in any way you can assume you know what they think beyond certain obvious basics. But we often forget our manners on the internet and behave in ways we would not in real life. It's all good if you start talking to us like equals instead of lecturing us like subordinate students. You've got the bones of a good contributor, I look forward to reading what you have to say going forward.

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Coming here and saying 'the universe is God' is rather like coming here and saying 'black is one'.