Theists, is MDB a hostile environment?

[_Some Schmo]

Hello double S (Happy Monday!)

Fine assessment, Ceeb, and I feel exactly the same way about this board.

At this rate, my guess is that I will make you a devout believer within weeks. :)














Worst case, months.

Peace,
Ceeboo

Oh Ceeboo, I should just fess up. I'm already a devout member of the church I started: the New Found Light (that's NFL for short). There's no way I could ever join another church. Mine's seasonal so I get the spring and summer off. I worship at the altar of speed, talent and hard work. I eat only church approved dishes during meetings (nachos, chicken wings, etc) and my religion only permits beer, not that sissy wine stuff (that's fine for my wife, not for me).

My religious contributions basically amount to what NFL Ticket costs (which reminds me... I need to write that off in an amendment of my last tax return).

Anyway... all other religions are a mockery of what's really important in life, which is why I talk about them the way I do. I'm sorry, but they just can't compete with the blessed feeling I get from my church every Sunday.

Would you like me to send you a brochure?

[_harmony]

No comments for MsJack?

That alone says something about the board.

[_schreech]

Theists of all stripes, please air your grievances about the environment of this board, I’m curious about what you think about the atmosphere various non-theists here help create.

Define..."hostile"...

Define..."theists"...(is darth a "theist"? are you a "theist"?)...

Define..."environment"...(i wouldn't consider myself a "non-theist" so i am not sure where i fit into this op)

[_Buffalo]

My immediate exile to Elba would no doubt solve the problem, given my unspeakable depths of depravity and combined with my intellectual vacuity and my propensity to threaten my Malevolent Stalker with homicide.

Okay, I gotta give credit where credit is due, this is a really good DCP.

No doubt my reputation as an unprincipled prevaricator too evil to be allowed to live has given you that impression.

I would elucidate further, but I'm running late for something that is far more important than the nonsense that regularly passes for intelligent interlocution in this place.

[_Some Schmo]

No comments for MsJack?

That alone says something about the board.

That people didn't want to be hostile to MsJack?

Did you miss Morley's comment?

[_MrStakhanovite]

Define..."hostile"...

Theist doesn’t want to comment, because they'll get 4 responses that are aggressive and insulting (comparing God to Santa Claus for example). Nobody wants to post if people are just going to use their posts as a launching pad for a diatrabe about needing evidence and people being deluded.

Define..."theists"...(is darth a "theist"? are you a "theist"?)...

Anyone who believes in a personal creator God, who interacts with his creation.

Define..."environment"...(i wouldn't consider myself a "non-theist" so i am not sure where i fit into this op)

The various threads on this message board.

[_sock puppet]

Theist doesn’t want to comment, because they'll get 4 responses that are aggressive and insulting (comparing God to Santa Claus for example). Nobody wants to post if people are just going to use their posts as a launching pad for a diatrabe about needing evidence and people being deluded.

It is so anti-social of us evidentialists/reliablists to keep calling for evidence. I am sorry, but not willing to say I won't do it in the future.

[_schreech]

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Excellent, and thank you...I hope to have more to say shortly and i appreciate you willingness to indulge my literalism :)....I am starting to drink now so I doubt that I will be able to intelligently contribute to any further comments.

[_MrStakhanovite]

It is so anti-social of us evidentialists/reliablists to keep calling for evidence. I am sorry, but not willing to say I won't do it in the future.

It’s anti-social if you do it obnoxiously. There is a difference between examining certain non-basic and basic beliefs and their relation to evidence and saying, “Your God is just like the Easter Bunny”

[_Some Schmo]

Define..."hostile"...

Theist doesn’t want to comment, because they'll get 4 responses that are aggressive and insulting (comparing God to Santa Claus for example). Nobody wants to post if people are just going to use their posts as a launching pad for a diatribe about needing evidence and people being deluded.

So you're in the "tip toe around theists/don't actually say what you think/BS them into thinking you value nonsense simply because they think it" camp. I see.

You know, people can tell me if what I think is nonsense if they want (and they often do, in so many words). Do I feel like they're being hostile toward me, or my ideas? Well, it depends on whether they're insulting me or my ideas. I can't change me nearly as easily as I can change my ideas, and so I try to be careful to separate them. I highly recommend it. Makes all the hostility toward my ideas like a walk in the park.

If people want to get caught up in the delivery at the expense of the message, I suppose that's up to them.

I find this place to be hostile toward all brands of stupidity. That's why I like it.