(November 9, 2018 at 11:25 am)Whateverist Wrote: Also for the record, I'm pretty sure C_L leaving (if she has) has nothing to do with your behavior. She always struck me as fond of both you and the Tibster. She only mentioned the repetiveness and the inability to have a discussion where anyone risks anything because they are immediately put on the defensive. And to be fair I was the one who brought it up in discussing my own ambivalence about that aspect of this place. I don't think we're any worse than the population as a whole, and I definitely prefer us to self righteous religious schmucks who think they're on the good side even as they act like complete alpha-males assholes.
I'd be surprised if it had anything to do with me. We disagree on a lot of things, but, for my part, I've always thought we get along. We're still friends on the old book of faces.
When I'm annoyed at theists here, it's not run of the mill believers. For me, I understand the need to soften the edges of the world, get a deity on your side, feel in control or like you can hand your problems off to a greater being. I can empathize, if not sympathize. The people that annoy me are holier-than-thou fucking assholes who use their religion to themselves on a pedestal while shaming others. Fuck those people. I don't argue religion with them. I argue humanity.