Hello from the UK :)

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Hi emjay,

Sorry you're leaving and this isn't for you. However, to save you some time, you can't close your account.

Good luck in your internets travels.

Hi Pandamonium,

Thanks for that and if that's the case I feel a bit silly for having burned my bridges so to speak by leaving a farewell message. Can I take that back ?


You'll have to forgive me, I just got freaked out by the site going down the other day and thought it might've been an attempted hack by religious nuts angry at something someone had said (which wouldn't have surprised me based on how 'vocal' the discussions are here ) - and therefore wanted to distance myself from it.

I still don't feel comfortable with how vocal the discussions are here but please don't take that to mean I am an apologist for religion. I am not. Religion has caused me nothing but grief in my life. I'm gay you see and that was what made me question my religion in the first place and what ultimately continues to drive a pointless wedge between me and my family that no matter what I do, no matter what rational arguments I put forward, I can't dislodge. So believe me I am angry with religion and immensely frustrated but I just don't know how to combat something which has as its first instinct the desire to shut out anything which threatens it.

So since I can't close my account I may well just throw caution to the wind and say exactly how I feel which is what I've just done ) Am I still welcome? 

Of course you're still welcome.

The site went down because we've been in the process of moving servers and updating the forum software. No need to fear about hacking attemps ^_^

Conversations can certainly get heated here, but overall we're a good bunch of people, theist and atheist alike. Just develop a thicker skin and remember not to take anything personally, it's only the internets after all