[Serious] Over the top

[Belacqua]

The sum total of my father is his religion. It's all that matters to him (including religious conspiracy theories and looking forward to the end times), it's almost all he talks about. It's not all there is to him, but he has marginalized every other aspect of his history, life, and personality. I do wish there was more to him. In order to stand visiting him I have to bring religious-oriented movies to keep him from working on converting me long enough to make the visit bearable.

He's a long way past 'religion is important in his life'.

I wouldn't be happy if my father were this way. I'm sorry his obsession makes it difficult for you to be close with him.
It's sad when people go over the top in any direction. There are people who use their beliefs to be better, and people who use them to be worse. 

Yes, people are really allowed to say things you wouldn't say here, and you really aren't immune to disagreement with your opinion on that, and disagreeing with what you say is not the same thing as not being allowed to say it. Drama much?

I strongly doubt you actually learned anything except perhaps improving your technique with your broad brush.

 

Of course I know that according to the rules I'm allowed to point it out when atheists say ridiculous things. There is no threat of being banned. 

It's the response from other posters that has been of interest to me. People are generally uninterested in holding other atheists to any kind of standard of truth or reasonableness. 

Have I used a broad brush? I said that some of the atheists here say things that are over the top. This is less broad-brushy than what Wyzas said, about billions of people living and dead, and which he has no interest in backing up with facts or logic. Such statements are very broad brush, fairly common, and almost never argued against.