Radical Christianity 101

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Insofar as the rules allow, I'm not going to feel constrained from talking to anyone about family, God, life and death.
Christians are not subject to "special rules" about who they can and cannot talk to on the forum and they don't need Esquilax's permission or proof checking of their posts to see if they meet some arbitrary "sensitivity" guideline about ..."how to talk to an atheist"

Or how to be a decent human being.

I'm sure most of the theists here have recognised by now that most of us 'atheists' don't really care about their beliefs or their version of 'god'. In fact, the only reason we're talking about it at all is because folk such as yourself insist on doing so. If people just kept their beliefs to themselves, then the world would be a better place.

But, as you say, you can talk to us all the time about your beliefs. Nobody here is going to stop you from doing that. It's just odd that so many theists start to get their knickers in a twist when people disagree with them, and disagree with them forcefully. Not accusing you of being such as person, but it's evident throughout this board.

Some people however seem to lack that basic human ability to empathise. When I spoke about my dad, I didn't do so with the aim of eliciting sympathy, or concern. I did it to counter a point made by another poster. Yet somehow, on that thread, I was accused of using my father's condition as a stop tactic on the debate; to stifle it using an 'un-touchable subject (family)'. That is false, and demonstrably false to anyone who read the thread in question. I was then attacked by the other poster, and worse, had my own father's condition used as an attack against me.

This is the reason for Esquilax's post above.

And there's two people in this world. People who know what I'm talking about, and people who lack the ability to empathise and understand reasoning.