Look what I found!

[Drich]

AF.com is indeed a very anti religious site. Unless the religious offender is a poe who enjoys one sided arguments. Because the Mods over there do indeed restrict and ban anyone who dares speak unashamedly for God and the bible.

Before this site, I was banned from an atheist / freethinker site for discussing human biology, in defence of the Catholic Churchs opinon on homosexuality.

The "freethinkers" said that biology was" homophobic" and I was asked to stop discussing it*.

(*the mods had lots of homosexual posters pressuring them to censor scientific facts about human bodies, because they didnt like the implications of these facts for their own sexuality).

I said that I was not prepared to marginalise science, or distort understanding of human bodies, and was ultimately banned from the site, in a massive show of intellectual cowardice.

I thought that was a great advert for the credibility of "free thinkers" and the strength of their arguments lol

Of course, the idea of "free thought" is misleading ultimately. The truth exists, and so we cannot really "think freely" we can only accept or deny the truth.

I also found the whole affair deeply satisfying, as no-one is more acutely aware of how bad and idiotic that action made the forum and its members look, than the forum and its members themselves.

At the end of the day, whatever kind of forum you join, you gotta follow their rules - of course. But no rule can credibly be allowed to suppress knowledge or portray science as bigoted.

I am very impressed by this forum. I have not seen any bad examples of moderation and think in general the site has a good membership and good conversations.

There were a few in the beginning with me, but those mods were quickly leashed or weeded out. Without doubt this web site as it is today, is truly a free and open forum. I have all but devoted the lion's share of my time here.