Hi guys.
I've been noticing something bad in almost every thread I go into.
The thread starts usually with something a religious person asks about or posts. And what follows is a long thread of ridicule and senseless attacks.
I am noticing more an more threads that never seem to attack the question and the issue at hand. Threads filled with cheap jokes and insults. Posts that are nothing more than a link or a pair of sentences that don't contribute to the debate.
Meanwhile the religious people use those posts to later on claim that they had a "discussion" on an atheist oriented forum and they won the arguments!
"See", they would say; "I posted some of my religious proof and BOOM! Atheists didn't know what to respond".
Come on guys!
You want to comment on a news piece, do so, but with respect to the readers. Maybe write about how morality should not be derived from holy books and how that piece of news contradicted human rights, the teaching of the people who did something...
Atheists are supposed to be the elite of the educated masses. We are supposed to spread knowledge, not ridicule.
I've been noticing something bad in almost every thread I go into.
The thread starts usually with something a religious person asks about or posts. And what follows is a long thread of ridicule and senseless attacks.
I am noticing more an more threads that never seem to attack the question and the issue at hand. Threads filled with cheap jokes and insults. Posts that are nothing more than a link or a pair of sentences that don't contribute to the debate.
Meanwhile the religious people use those posts to later on claim that they had a "discussion" on an atheist oriented forum and they won the arguments!
"See", they would say; "I posted some of my religious proof and BOOM! Atheists didn't know what to respond".
Come on guys!
You want to comment on a news piece, do so, but with respect to the readers. Maybe write about how morality should not be derived from holy books and how that piece of news contradicted human rights, the teaching of the people who did something...
Atheists are supposed to be the elite of the educated masses. We are supposed to spread knowledge, not ridicule.
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another." - Epicurus
