I've been banned from many forums, usually because I tell the truth as I see it and many forums don't tolerate that.
I was banned from a political forum on the night Obama was elected because I would not stop bashing Obama. They kept shutting down my anti-Obama threads and I kept startiing new ones and then they banned me.
I was banned from a Muslim after ONE POST because I dared to talk about terrorism.
I have found a good political forum now and I've been there for many years without being banned because you can say pretty much what you want and they won't ban you.
So we will see what kind of forum this is.
Am I allowed to speak my mind?
Or will the moderators censor me at every turn, give me repeated warnings, and then ban me simply for expressing my point of view?
We shall see.
And the reason I lead with this is that I am a Catholic and I'm here to talk to atheists and see what's going on with them.
And I was inspired to join this forum because I saw this video with some young lady complaining about the "Atheism +" movement and realized that atheists have conflicts amongst themselves and I want to watch and observe and maybe put in my two cents.
And I think, well, everyone knows that Christians have all these fights amongst themselves, but who knew that atheists can't get along with each other either?
Well, thinking back, I should have realized it, but the atheists on my religion forum are pretty good at keeping a united front in front of us Christians, Jews and Muslims.
Anyway, Atheism + intrigues me. It seems to me an effort to graft atheism onto the standard left-wing causes and therefore imply that if you are an atheist you must believe in these left-wing causes or you are a bad person.
And I can see why that might piss some atheists off.
I have simiar feelings about liberal Catholics who try to graft left-wing causes to Catholicism, i.e. "social justice" (voting for Democrats and supporting government food stamps and welfare programs) and "seamless garment" pro-life (opposition to the death penalty and war).
Anyway, hello and I hope you will welcome me to your forum.
And I'm not going to try to save your soul. I'm not even sure I can save my own soul.
I don't go to Church very often and the Church says its a mortal sin to miss Mass even one time so by now I've piled up enough mortal sins to send me to hell 1,000 times over.
And masturbation is a mortal sin, and well, even though I'm happily married I occasionally do that too.
I am very disenchanted with the Catholic Church right now and part of it is because God has not seen fit to answer my prayers and the other part is that so many priests and bishops were involved with the sex scandal.
But I am still a believer. I don't think I'll ever stop believing any more than I'll ever stop breathing or eating, until I die. Catholicism is part of who I am and I can't imagine being without it. It would be like cutting off my right arm to say I'm not a Catholic.
Anyway, here I am. Have your fun mocking me or whatever you want to do. Thanks.
I was banned from a political forum on the night Obama was elected because I would not stop bashing Obama. They kept shutting down my anti-Obama threads and I kept startiing new ones and then they banned me.
I was banned from a Muslim after ONE POST because I dared to talk about terrorism.
I have found a good political forum now and I've been there for many years without being banned because you can say pretty much what you want and they won't ban you.
So we will see what kind of forum this is.
Am I allowed to speak my mind?
Or will the moderators censor me at every turn, give me repeated warnings, and then ban me simply for expressing my point of view?
We shall see.
And the reason I lead with this is that I am a Catholic and I'm here to talk to atheists and see what's going on with them.
And I was inspired to join this forum because I saw this video with some young lady complaining about the "Atheism +" movement and realized that atheists have conflicts amongst themselves and I want to watch and observe and maybe put in my two cents.
And I think, well, everyone knows that Christians have all these fights amongst themselves, but who knew that atheists can't get along with each other either?
Well, thinking back, I should have realized it, but the atheists on my religion forum are pretty good at keeping a united front in front of us Christians, Jews and Muslims.
Anyway, Atheism + intrigues me. It seems to me an effort to graft atheism onto the standard left-wing causes and therefore imply that if you are an atheist you must believe in these left-wing causes or you are a bad person.
And I can see why that might piss some atheists off.
I have simiar feelings about liberal Catholics who try to graft left-wing causes to Catholicism, i.e. "social justice" (voting for Democrats and supporting government food stamps and welfare programs) and "seamless garment" pro-life (opposition to the death penalty and war).
Anyway, hello and I hope you will welcome me to your forum.
And I'm not going to try to save your soul. I'm not even sure I can save my own soul.
I don't go to Church very often and the Church says its a mortal sin to miss Mass even one time so by now I've piled up enough mortal sins to send me to hell 1,000 times over.
And masturbation is a mortal sin, and well, even though I'm happily married I occasionally do that too.
I am very disenchanted with the Catholic Church right now and part of it is because God has not seen fit to answer my prayers and the other part is that so many priests and bishops were involved with the sex scandal.
But I am still a believer. I don't think I'll ever stop believing any more than I'll ever stop breathing or eating, until I die. Catholicism is part of who I am and I can't imagine being without it. It would be like cutting off my right arm to say I'm not a Catholic.
Anyway, here I am. Have your fun mocking me or whatever you want to do. Thanks.
