(September 25, 2012 at 10:34 pm)Blackrook Wrote:(September 25, 2012 at 10:28 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Hey! You can't generalise like that. As a former Pentecostal born-again Christian, I still hold on to some basic values that are considered Christian, especially like not swearing.I'm not a prude, don't get me along. I will occasionally drop a swearword if I get the impulse.
But I have never seen a forum like this, where cussing and swearing and browbeating insults are permitted as if it was legitimate argument.
The only forum I've seen worse than this is the Family Guy fan forum, which is like walking in pigshit its so foul.
You atheists are holding yourself to a very low standard of conduct.
Is that really the impression you want to give to the outside world, a world that you are trying to convince that atheism should be accepted as the equal of any religion?
1. I think religion has a lot more to answer for than swearing.
2. Again, people who happen to be atheists are swearing, therefore all atheists use dirty language.
How about: one theist comes in and accuses us all of being intolerant whilst insulting us himself and expects us not to care. Therefore all theists are like that. You've hardly done anything but insult us or act defensive, how are we supposed to feel? Now you call us orcs, and...

John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.