(November 16, 2012 at 5:59 am)LastPoet Wrote: If you were having a conversation with friends and a bloke suddenly joined in without introducing himself just to start making disingenious questions, inplying stuff about you that are utterly untrue, you wouldn't like it either.You have a unique ability - the ability to group me together with anyone you think belongs to my "group". My point was that you guys had nothing to be fired up about other than your egos.
There are ways to know the demeanor in wich a question is asked. If your fellow religionist was truly making an honest question, he would have phrased it like this: I hear that atheism is a religion and they try to push it unto others, is this true?; or: Where do atheists get their morality from?
Quote:Phrasing is very important in a civil conversation, and if that guy truly was interested in having such, he would've introduced himself properly, then asked things in that way. You aren't here long enough to assert that hit and run trolls are one of the most prolific ones around. They are not interested in hearing what we say, they are interested in saying what they think of us and go to their fellows claiming he as 'pwned' atheists.You can't just expect other people to behave the way you want them to, and then complain about them when they don't.