Question for Atheists

[Mister Agenda]

Uh, I was looking for a discussion. That was the whole point to the question. I wasn't pimping my book, I was responding to the question about my intentions. And I'll tell you the same thing I told the other moron. I'm not coming back in here anyway after 6pm est so ban me all you want.

I believe you.

This is the truth. I came in here for a polite discussion with a group of Atheists because I wanted their perspective on one of the major themes in my book. I was polite with everyone who was polite with me. Through out the entire experience all you people have done is re-enforced what Christians say about you.

Except for the polite ones, who are apparently going to get short shrift because some of us were mean to you.

I was polite and courteous right up until the point when I finally lost my patience, and that specifically started with you. Who gives a good flying fuck if the word is capitalized or not.

Editors.

And even if you were trying to get me to understand some other notion regarding how Theists view Atheists what in the flying sam hell does that have to do with the OP?

You shouldn't capitalize 'theists' either. Not every post has to be on topic. The person who starts a thread does not have editorial control over it.

This is the first forum I've ever been in where there isn't a rule about sticking to the topic, or maybe there is and the moderators just don't follow it.

If you read the rules to which you agreed when you joined, you'd know for sure.

I was also up front with why I was here at the very beginning, but I'm guessing some of you didn't bother to read what I actually wrote.

Being up front that you have no intention of sticking around once you've got what you want doesn't make it okay. Though I'll grant it's better than being sneaky about it.

Instead you stopped at my religion type up there at the top and decided I was the enemy right off the bat. THAT's what happened. THAT'S what you did.

You seem to have quickly developed a persecution complex. No one here is judging you by anything but what you post. Do you thihk if I write a book, I ought to put that Christians can't handle criticism and always play the Christian persecution card when things don't go their way?

Go back and read through the thread. I did nothing here but try and have a discussion, that's all I tried to do, anyone with any brain at all can see that.

I can see that. If you weren't having an anti-atheist meltdown because some of us are nit-picky about the rules of English, I'd have more sympathy for you.

I won't wait till 6pm, I'll go ahead and bounce now because I really have all I need for my book. The character of the typical Atheist is very clear. My character is going to be an arrogant, condescening asshole who lives in a basement and spends his day spewing vitriol to anyone who opposes his belief system.

So one day on one forum is all the research you ever intended? You think you can judge an entire demographic based on that? There are about 6 million atheists in the USA. Hint: the vast majority of them aren't here. And some of them are probably people you care about.

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So what? He made it very clear that his intended audience are American rightwing christians. And going by his sweeping assumptions and arrogance, he never intended to write something different anyway.

Then honestly, by all rights and to protect the people on this forum from being further scrutinized by an individual who clearly had this sort of motive, he should have been immediately banned. If it was never his "true" intent to engage in meaningful discussion with the people here, whether that be to learn or research, one can surmise that it WAS his intention to harass, troll and agitate anyone daring to respond.

He responded to many posts politely for about the first six pages. Some people are touchy about having their posts criticized for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. That doesn't justify his parting rant, and thin skin is not a survival trait around here, but I don't think the evidence supports his intention being to troll. I think it supports him not taking constructive criticism well.