The reason why we have introduction threads is so that people can kind of dip a toe into this community in a safe environment.
I was on his side about the nitpicking, that is, until he basically said he was here to use us and had no intention of returning after he was done with us. His incredulity at the idea that just because he said he was here for research in his OP doesn't make him any less of an asshole pushed me over the edge.
I do think we, as a group here, could be a little less nit picky on the "atheists as a community" thing. I understand that atheism doesn't inherently mean anything, but there are some things that if you polled all atheists, we would tend to relate on certain grounds. The importance of science, skepticism, and being socially liberal, for example, are not tenets of atheism by any means, but if you picked an atheist randomly from a group, he or she's (more than) likely to exhibit these traits or have these values.
I was on his side about the nitpicking, that is, until he basically said he was here to use us and had no intention of returning after he was done with us. His incredulity at the idea that just because he said he was here for research in his OP doesn't make him any less of an asshole pushed me over the edge.
I do think we, as a group here, could be a little less nit picky on the "atheists as a community" thing. I understand that atheism doesn't inherently mean anything, but there are some things that if you polled all atheists, we would tend to relate on certain grounds. The importance of science, skepticism, and being socially liberal, for example, are not tenets of atheism by any means, but if you picked an atheist randomly from a group, he or she's (more than) likely to exhibit these traits or have these values.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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