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I love to frequent some of the christian forums as well as the spiritual ones but i always end up getting banned because i dont agree with them LOL They dont have much patience
Christianforums.com keeps banning me they have no patience at all. They rule with a iron fist.
Only place I found that allowed more discussion was inthepursuitofgod.com/forum but they shut their forum down a while back. Yet I did see they opened back up again last week so I might see if I can enter some conversations there again
(February 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm)sunnyjim Wrote: I love to frequent some of the christian forums as well as the spiritual ones but i always end up getting banned because i dont agree with them LOL They dont have much patience
Christianforums.com keeps banning me they have no patience at all. They rule with a iron fist.
Only place I found that allowed more discussion was inthepursuitofgod.com/forum but they shut their forum down a while back. Yet I did see they opened back up again last week so I might see if I can enter some conversations there again
Do you get banned a lot from religious forums?
i visit a French forum that doesn't mind atheists (a rare occasion ). But people there are batshit insane, even by christian standards
(February 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm)sunnyjim Wrote: I love to frequent some of the christian forums as well as the spiritual ones but i always end up getting banned because i dont agree with them LOL They dont have much patience
Christianforums.com keeps banning me they have no patience at all. They rule with a iron fist.
Only place I found that allowed more discussion was inthepursuitofgod.com/forum but they shut their forum down a while back. Yet I did see they opened back up again last week so I might see if I can enter some conversations there again
Do you get banned a lot from religious forums?
I lasted all of 24 hours at Christian Forums.
What really annoys me is that they have an apologetics forum where non-believers are supposedly allowed to debate Christian doctrine. I only posted in this forum and still got banned for "bashing Christianity".
If you're going to have a closed forum, fine. Just say so. There's nothing wrong with that if this is your stated policy. But don't create a debate form and then tell only one side they have to play really nice and not make any forceful arguments. It reminded me of Fox Noise.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
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... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
(February 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm)sunnyjim Wrote: Christianforums.com keeps banning me they have no patience at all. They rule with a iron fist.
Just checked out their rules. Looks like acquiring tunnel vision is a requirement. Just curious, did you read this before you joined?
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(February 27, 2011 at 7:27 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Ive been banned from some religious forums just for saying I am an atheist.
Surely not! I'm shocked .
Try it on a Muslim forum.;they bay at the moon,AND make death threats.
BUT there is no right of expectation of 'fairness'or 'free speech' on any forum.They can and do make rules as silly and unfair as they like. Break the rules and you WILL be banned on most forums,even here.
No offence old boy,but I think your complaint is just a bit precious.
(February 27, 2011 at 9:26 pm)Emporion Wrote: ● Do not make posts which attempt to exorcise or bind demons, or post instructions on how to complete deliverance.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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(February 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm)sunnyjim Wrote: Do you get banned a lot from religious forums?
I've never felt the need to join one.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
). But people there are batshit insane, even by christian standards 
