(October 30, 2017 at 12:45 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 30, 2017 at 12:42 pm)emjay Wrote: Well one example would be, would you be allowed to ask awkward questions... or point out contradictions etc? From a theist perspective I'd imagine that a lot of the questions we ask are what you might call pedantic/splitting hairs... but from an atheist point of view (well from my point of view at least) those sorts of questions are perfectly valid and shouldn't be glossed over.
I can't see why that wouldn't be allowed, so long as the intention is to have genuine discussion and not mockery, etc.
Well the reason for it would be for a genuine discussion because those things matter to a non-believer and indeed are part of the reason for not believing, so if it can be discussed at length, that would be good. So the problem could be that if you don't back down... ie you keep pushing the point until it gets a real answer rather than a deflection or whatever... then they might see that as aggressiveness. So really, what I'm saying is, are atheists allowed to win arguments on those forums... or do the theists just play lip service to whatever questions are being asked but ultimately expect atheists to drop it when it gets uncomfortable?
