JCC Arena The Theist/Atheist Thunderdome™

This is off-topic a little bit, but is there any way to add multiple items to your religious preference on Facebook?

 

Just call yourself indecisive.

 

Do you believe in UFOs, astral projection, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trans-mediums, the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of Atlantis?

 

Did you read the opening post? I'll repost for you (minus the list of gods)

 

I did, I just didn't realize I couldn't just come in here and simply comment on something without it turning into a big thing. Like a lot of the posts that were posted before I came in.

 

yeah, people willing to defend the religious point of view are severely outnumbered in this thread. it's basically a social thread for atheists and skeptics until a christian shows up and then they're given the third degree by the mob. i mean it's not wrong, it's just the demographic of the thread. but it's not like everyone new to the thread is in for the same rude awakening, that's pretty much only if you defend a christian point of view.

 

I want atheist, humanist, and pastafarian.

 

Atlantis doesn't seem entirely far-fetched.

 

If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

 

This is a pretty accurate assessment. I guess it depends on the approach taken. People like Woicky, Rogue1.5, and some others have done fine here.

 

This thread was started as a low-brow version of actual religious discussions, just as the "Derp" thread was started as a low-brow alternative to actual political discussion. I would recommend the Christianity thread to those that want to talk about the religion thoughtfully from a perspective that it tends to accept its central tenets.

 

yes, but those guys are old hats at the jcc. for christians who are new to the thread and also new to the forum in general it's got to be hard to find a footing. and i think people are quicker to jump on people they don't know. again, it's just that the forum skews more atheist and i'm not sure what could be done about it or that anything should be done about it. just laying it out there.

 

Wocky's suggestion is a pretty good one. This thread wasn't really intended to be a place for discussion of Christianity... we have a Christianity thread for that. This was supposed to be a thread for discussion of religion and atheism in general. It's just that this forum seems to be polarized between Christians and Atheists, with a few exceptions, like Merk.

Wocky's Christianity thread:
http://boards.theforce.net/threads/christianity-discussion-thread.50014090/

 

i mean that thread hasn't been posted in in almost a year, so it's not like there's an ongoing conversation to join. if a new one starts it might very well play out like the discussions in this thread. i thought this thread was started because religious debates were derailing a bunch of threads that were ostensibly about something else. i think it's been effective in that regard, at least we can say "take it to the thunderdome" if a religious debate randomly breaks out in a thread about gun control.

but whatever, i'm not even arguing for anything really and i don't mean to come across as negative. just pointing out what i see as a double standard with regards to how people should expect to be treated when they enter this thread.

 

Yeah. this thread was started in order to deal with moviefan.

 

And ASR?

 

We also needed a Holocaust denial thread for him.

 

This thread has taken the place of the old Senate Atheism thread, which has gone through four incarnations because they all ran out of control. They typically ran out of control when a religious zealot set up camp. But in this old thread, atheists would at least not be guilty of tom's charge. It was a thread for atheists. Zealots entered at their own risk.

 

If this is a thread to basically make fun of Christians, I am okay with that to a certain degree, because I am very critical of my own ilk. There are a lot of Christians out there with the intellectual capacity of a flightless parrot.

 

You should've see this thread when I first created it, there were Christians trying to get it shut down and that I was being a horrible person for making it, etc. It was awful. I'm glad we can curb stomp Christians in this thread now because before it was really annoying. I do believe Darth_Mischievous and Bubba_The_Genius were the biggest whiners. So be proud: it wasn't always like this.

 

lol... but I didn't create this thread with the intention to "curb stomp" Christians. I just wanted to put a stop to every thread being derailed by religious debates... and at the time, it was happening almost constantly (not sure if you ever encountered moviefan, but he was pretty bad about it).

 

Moviefan hasn't completely disappeared. He 'liked' one of my posts in the Prequels forum last week.