Quite a shame how people respond

[Whateverist]

It's just a figment of her imagination ...

Well you know the imagination/brain is the most potent of sex organs, right?

[Cinjin]

Hi guys.

I've been noticing something bad in almost every thread I go into.

"bad" is highly subjective

The thread starts usually with something a religious person asks about or posts. And what follows is a long thread of ridicule and senseless attacks.

A majority of religious threads are started by non-believers so I don't know what your point is there. Also, ridicule is not a senseless attack. Ridicule is often deserved and warranted.

I am noticing more an more threads that never seem to attack the question and the issue at hand. Threads filled with cheap jokes and insults. Posts that are nothing more than a link or a pair of sentences that don't contribute to the debate.

Most threads here are not formal debates by any stretch of the imagination, and you are merely finding fault with the regular back and forth banter of people who do not share the same ideals. You might as well walk into a bar and chastise two sports fans for mocking each other. Who the hell are you to decide how people should or should not conduct a conversation?

Meanwhile the religious people use those posts to later on claim that they had a "discussion" on an atheist oriented forum and they won the arguments!
"See", they would say; "I posted some of my religious proof and BOOM! Atheists didn't know what to respond".

So? Who cares. They're going to say that regardless of what is written on these forums.

Come on guys!

Get fucked.

You want to comment on a news piece, do so, but with respect to the readers. Maybe write about how morality should not be derived from holy books and how that piece of news contradicted human rights, the teaching of the people who did something...

Thank you Captain Obvious. Spend more than a week here and you'll find that the same rational logical questions/answers have long been presented to the same theists dozens/hundreds of times. Your advice is as useless as it is pretentious.

Atheists are supposed to be the elite of the educated masses. We are supposed to spread knowledge, not ridicule.

That is completely untrue. Some atheists are brilliant. Some are complete and utter fucktards. Atheists are not supposed to be anything, and it is you who has shown that they can be completely obtuse, condescending, pretentious, and full of shit.

[purplepurpose]

So basically this site is place where atheists supporting each other and grow belief that God doesn't exist. Still it will be only clear who was right after death... Its still too early to celebrate.

[Tonus]

So basically this site is place where atheists supporting each other and grow belief that God doesn't exist. Still it will be only clear who was right after death... Its still early to celebrate.

On the contrary, now is the best time to celebrate. Consider it a reversal of Pascal's Wager. If you don't celebrate now and it turns out that god didn't exist, you missed out on one heck of a celebration. Bet those wafers don't taste so good now, eh?

[Creed of Heresy]

So basically this site is place where atheists supporting each other and grow belief that God doesn't exist. Still it will be only clear who was right after death... Its still too early to celebrate.

You're getting dangerously close to approaching that tiresome Pascal's Wager argument.

[Cyberman]

So basically this site is place where atheists supporting each other and grow belief that God doesn't exist.

And whoever said that they believe this? Not saying that nobody ever did, but if you're going to generalise all atheists like that then you'd better hold on to your kilt, because you got a shitstorm of generalisations about theists headed your way.

Still it will be only clear who was right after death... Its still too early to celebrate.

Damn, but I wish you lot would stop talking in boring clichés...

(Theist generalisation #1.)

[purplepurpose]

If God doesn't exist then life is like a dream and at the end just like God, consciousness sees to exist...
If God exists then we're all bound to be rewarded, penalized according to our deeds.
Void, complete disappearance of personality, death. Or endless karmic cycle. Which one you prefer?

[pocaracas]

If god doesn't exist.... life is a very precious thing to have.... why do you say it's like a dream? To me, it's my number one treasure... number 2 is my wife's life.
If god exists.... who's to say there's such a thing as a reward? the guy could not give a fuck... or could just send every soul to the same cauldron... or maybe the Buddhists have it right and you get sent from animal to animal...or... or....or the possibilities are endless.... bounded by the limitless human imagination.

"which do you prefer?"
Dude, reality is not about personal preference! Reality does give a damn. Reality is what it is, regardless of what you or anyone else want/prefer.

[Kayenneh]

Void, complete disappearance of personality, death. Or endless karmic cycle. Which one you prefer?

The first one please. And if I'm wrong and there is an afterlife, at least I get to spend it with my peers. Thor forbid that I have to spend eternity in the company of sanctimonious theists..

[Tonus]

Void, complete disappearance of personality, death. Or endless karmic cycle. Which one you prefer?

So that's how the afterlife works? You wish for the fate you prefer, and BAM you get it?