(June 21, 2015 at 11:54 am)Jenny A Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 11:47 am)whateverist Wrote: That is all I've found, ones which won't let you broach the subject. Except for WLC's site. But the rudeness of the reaction as well as the absurdity of what they say just wears you down. Makes me more sensitive to how our own theists are doing, especially the more reasonable among them.
That's kinda what I expected. I already wince a little sometime at how we treat some Christians here. But at the same time the ones who do get shoved hard here also tend to be the most relentlessly deaf to what people here actually think as opposed to what they thought we thought before they arrived.
I think people here are too ready to imagine some Christian who, at first, appears half-way reasonable is actually half-way reasonable, when they should be figuring that someone who believes in fairytale nonsense cannot be very reasonable. And as you say, the ones who get shoved hard here ask for it. But, of course, what sort of Christian is likely to join an atheist site? So obnoxious jerks who do not pay attention to what people actually state and argue dishonestly is what we should expect for the future as well as the present. If they were good at following arguments and being reasonable, they would not be Christians at all.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
