need to vent

[watchamadoodle]

Someone call Drich; we got another guy who gave up too soon!

Just kidding. It's natural for people not to want to hear things that challenge what we believe. For something as important to us as religion (or lack of same) the walls we put up can be very rigid. So it's not surprising if people react in such a manner on a religious forum if you tell them that you think their religion is false. For a devout religious person that's a pretty heavy charge to level.

I don't know. I have never been so certain of my beliefs that it would offend me to hear opposing beliefs.

At first I assumed the blasphemy charge was simply due to a mean and narrow-minded person that had complained and the moderator had rubber-stamped that complaint without reading my post carefully. I tried to explain my post to that moderator, but was shocked by his persistent support of the blasphemy charge. Then I thought I had an inexperienced moderator, so I tried appealing to a higher-up moderator. I was shocked even more when that moderator supported the blasphemy charge.

It really made me angry. I could understand if I was making a joke about God or something. I simply said I thought Christianity was false based on historical evidence. It's ironic because I was actually trying to consider a way where I could satisfy my Christian impulses by practicing Christianity without actually believing it - as a spiritual toolkit to reach whatever might exist behind the world's false religions.

I'm sure the Puritans would be proud of them for burning me at the stake on the Thanksgiving holiday.