The Intersection of Faith and Doubt: finding common ground.

[Ravenshire]

GalacticBusDriver, I didn’t come here to debate. As you may gather, I think debates can be rather pointless. I’ve actually been in one.

… it was awful.

Meh... All conversation in life is debate to one degree or another. When I said " if you offer lively debate" I certainly didn't mean it in the sense of a formal debate. I'm not much interested in those either, but I do love to argue a point.

But an odd thing seems to happen when the matter of religion pops up; they use words like, “superstitious or absurd.” I remain stony-faced and the conversation proceeds as normal. So, generally I expect a bit of criticism.

Try to remember that we may attack your beliefs, but we're not likely to attack you without provocation. Of course, some are more easily provoked than others. We believe that belief in the untestable and unverifiable is superstitious, absurd, loony, nutty, insane, pointless, stupid, harmful, dangerous and/or bat-shit crazy. That goes for far more than just god(s). Just keep in mind that it's not personal.