(May 4, 2018 at 12:43 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: So I went back and reread a few of my posts here where I explain my intention for this subsection.bold mine.
In case there is any misunderstanding, I wanted to clarify that when I said this:
"The premise is to encourage honest discussion of differing view points."
....What I meant was discussion between people with differing view points from each other. Example: theists and atheists discuss/debate with each other about religious related topics, liberals and conservatives discuss/debate with each other about politically related topics, etc.
I did not mean people with the same minority viewpoints would just get together and talk among themselves (example: only theists talking to theists, only conservatives talking to conservatives, only people of X minority opinion talking to people with that same opinion, etc). That can happen too of course, but isn't my purpose for proposing this idea. Discussion with people who have different opinions/beliefs from myself is the whole reason why I'm on AF, so yeah.
Since the term "safe space" and "snow flake" kept being thrown around a lot, I thought maybe I was not making myself clear enough in what I had in mind. Hopefully the above clarification helps dispel those accusations lol.
But this is exactly what has happened. There is now a debate going on that has specifically excluded atheists. On an Atheist forum no less.
Do you see why myself and others were so against this in the first place?
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
