(September 2, 2011 at 4:30 am)CoxRox Wrote: Dear Atheist,
I wanted to bring to your attention, the worrying trend that you have developed when interacting with non atheists. Maybe you aren't aware how obnixious and pompous you are.
I must admit that you are more clever than your average non atheist and that is evident in your posts; but you are also more rude, impatient and down right childish in your aggressive 'attacks' against proposed ideas that don't fit your definition of truth. You display no patience, good will or humour even, in your counter arguments.
If you are 'right' about a point, then its truth is made ugly or impotent by your methods of establishing it and maybe will result in some not 'seeing' the truth you 'defend'. You are in a privileged position that gives you power: having knowledge that many don't have. Share your knowledge wisely and peacefully, then it will grow.
best wishes
Catherine
p.s
Obviously this letter is not aimed at atheists per se but to the people who are responsible for driving Diamond and myself away. Of course their 'atheism' does not cause them to be like they are, but rather their egos and puffed up pride. (hence why this letter is not in the Atheism section).
Yeah this forum has become a bit heavy on the vitriol lately, we might have to tighten up the rules again, never a popular move but this has happened before and last time we tightened the rules a lot of people made a big deal of it and left, then things settled down and we relaxed the rules, then over a year or so the nastiness returned - Imo it's a phase, it will pass, in any case it's damn hard striking the right balance, we want to be as open as possible but at the same time we don't want to drive off the theists who stop by. Then again, someone having their reasoning called moronic or stupid is fair game... I understand some people think their opinions are 'precious' but as long as there is no flame-baiting or personal attacks it's all fair game.
DiamondDeist was damn irritating, but still I think in retrospect we all (myself included) were a bit harsh, then again being harsh isn't against the rules... It's hard to find a polite way to tell someone they're full of shit.
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