RE: Hello from Idaho
April 13, 2010 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm by Sherry.)
(April 13, 2010 at 1:51 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Welcome, Sherry. I'm new here myself. I think you'll find it mostly friendly here, but there is certainly a certain impatience with circular logic and straight up preaching. I can't speak for Minimalist, but some atheists feel frustrated by the hatred and anger that is directed our way so often in the real world. That frustration can sometimes inform our tone toward believers. It is not the default attitude, by any means.
Welcome Paul the Human. Well, it is people like that that has made me turn to cats for companionship. At least they love uncondionally and don't stab people in the back.
(April 13, 2010 at 1:53 pm)Darwinian Wrote: I won't presume to talk for Min but I think what got Gilligan off on the wrong foot with some was the presumption that because Herod and Pilot were real characters and they are mentioned in the Bible it somehow lends verisimilitude to the whole Biblical story.
Many see this as a 'red rag to a bull' and can't resist challenging him. After all, this is an atheist forum with many, many ex Christians who've studied the Bible for most of their lives.
And then he made the mistake of stereotyping all atheists by telling us that we all hate religion and have no interest in the subject at all.
Things may have gone a tad downhill from there.
Hopefully things will calm down some. Gilligan and myself have been on Yahoo Answers (R&S) and have seen the venom some atheists can spew at Christians. I myself have difficulty understanding why an atheist would be interested in religion unless it is to mock it.
