Introduction

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Onus is on them to introduce themselves to us. In case you haven't noticed we get a lot of trolls coming through who like to tell is what we think and berate us for it.

That's we have an introduction section and that's why we encourage new people to use.

OP welcome.

As someone who has gone through this personally, I would say that if this is an accepted part of your social culture, you should have some bold-typed warning on the top of the forum that says "if you do not present with an atheist perspective and you do not introduce yourself first, you will be berated and harassed". Honestly, I had no clue and it totally caught me off guard. I'm used to having my opinions valued and to being treated respectfully and I really was very confused.

Oh please get over yourself. We've got many members on here who aren't atheists who are treated with respect.

'Atheists' are not some homogenous group of people that are given a guide book as to how to be an atheist when they're shot out of their mother's womb. We've all got opinions that vary from subject to subject. The only thing that 'unites' atheists is a lack of belief in deities. That's it.

I'm sorry if your experience of the forum hasn't been what you expected it to be. Maybe if you'd lurked more you'd have gotten to know the membership a bit more and understood the general posting etiquette better.

You've posted OPs and responses laden with fallacious reasoning and you expected us to, what, sing your praises and dance around a maypole with banners and music and cookies?

I've said welcome. I'll leave you to it.