Religion Forum should be renamed "Athiest Forum"

I've come to expect that whenever I start a thread in Religion Forum, at least a dozen atheists will jump in to challenge me, but I will get very little, or no, support from fellow Christians.

And I think that's because there are very few Christians posting to this forum compared to atheists.

So I think we should change the name of the forum to "Atheist Forum" to more accurately represent who's hanging around here, and who isn't.

And then maybe we could have a separate forum where people who actually believe in some form of religion could debate each other on the merits of each.

 

A simple google search returns many Christian forums so why not discuss religion there?

 

The Catholic forum I looked at is too restrictive. It's like be nice, OR ELSE.

I prefer the freedom of this forum. I just wish more Christians were around.

 

Ah, I see. Perhaps a Christian forum would be a good thing here. May be kind of hard for the mods to keep it Christian only. I am not against it even though I would not be allowed in.

 

I don't think we need a separate forum, I just wish there were more Christians. I feel kind of gang banged when 10 atheists jump on every thread I start, and maybe one or two people are helping me, if that.

 

There probably are a lot of Christians here, they just aren't that Christian.

Maybe they don't have any thoughts or answers to the issues brought up, or they don't feel like being dragged into a fruitless debate. I wouldn't blame them. There's been plenty of threads over religion here, and they all pretty much end the same way. It can wear you down.

 

There are lots of Athiests in this particular forum, true, but not all of them are here just to bash our beliefs.

I find more Christians here insulting Islam than Athiests. It's even better when the Christians and Athiests (even the ones who do insult Christianity) come together to hate on Islam.

Unity at its finest lol


The trick, I find at least, is to not feed the Athiests who do attack Christianity. Let them post, and if you do reply to them refute their posts rsther than just "attack" Atheism in return. When you attack Atheism you make it worse. Of course I mean you in the general sense. And you can replace Atheism with any belief system you choose.

Although I have to agree, for a religion forum, there are very few religious people here. It's unfortunate but we need to make do with what we've got.

 

LOL this is a good one.
There are like zero times a theist has refuted an atheist .

 

Maybe that's because your arguments are not very convincing.

Matthew 7:13 (NLT) = “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way."

 

Yeah,, bit of a dying breed aren't they?

 

You are right. I think I will spend more time in the religion forum and support you and others. Atheists are people who are desperate to be shown the truth, but they are stuck on impericism and that jades their view or perdeption of faith. Impericism is not bad in and of itself, but faith has different standard of impericism. That sounds like a topic of its own. But all that said, I will support you friend, though I will post at odd times as I work sat night.

 

Maybe you should stop starting so many threads about atheism then. It's not something most Christians will have much interest in but atheists will, especially when those posts are negative. Of course it's also possible that there are Christians reading your posts but they're not supporting you because they don't agree with you.

The name of the forum isn't meant to represent the nature of the posters but the nature of the range of topics. Maybe more Christians would respond to topics about Christianity if more were posted though even that is uncertain since specifics of Christianity is not something many seem interested in actually debating (at least not in this kind of generic environment).

On an open forum about religion and philosophy such as this, the really open questions such as the existence or not of gods and the nature of different people's positions on those questions will inevitably dominate. It's also worth noting that this is a primarily political site, with this forum being just a sideline. If you want more specific religious discussions, maybe you need to seek a site dedicated to that (of which there are many).

 

Not to be aggressive here, but your threads tend to be assertive in that the discussion hinges upon the belief, which means an atheist must explain that they're atheist in order to respond. Either that or they specifically target atheists (not necessarily attacking them but referring to them in a manner that makes them respond). I know that I and many with me think that whether or not a belief is true is the only merit that belief can have but do you have an example of a discussion you would like to have between religious people?

Besides, it's not named the religion and philosophy because it only has religious people and philosophers, it's because people discuss religion. If we named forums after its frequenters, most subforums would have to be renamed. Most of them to "the subforum where we don't have a clue".

 

I have done it plenty of times when they decide to mention the Quran or teachings of Islam.

 

You should charge for this quality of comedy .
There is no way you can refute a non believer with beliefs .

 

Really? Then show irrefutable proof of your claim. If you cannot provide that irrefutable proof, then consider your post as a non-theist having been refuted. No rationalizations accepted.

 

Not hardly. Your post is one that indicates that you are hallucinating.

 

I guess most of the 'religious' threads aren't that interesting to me.. they don't get philosophical, but either are shouting fests or flame wars. I'm interested in philosophical reasoning, & appreciate diverse views, but what's the point in constant bashing, either from theists or atheists? Proselytizing is VERY boring, whatever view is being promoted, & dogmatic instruction is too, whether it is teaching denominational views, or academic theories.

But most 'religious' threads seem to be for fighting.. many people love to fight & wrangle over their religious views, or lack thereof.

 

On the contrary, Blackrook, Cupid Dave, and myself refute ignorant atheists ALL THE TIME.

The problem is that we are outnumbered, and so our strength has to outweigh becoming overrun by atheists, which we do with little effort. But I can relate with what Blackrook is saying. More support would be nice.

Time to convert some atheists to the Word of God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

When their beliefs involve twisting the teachings of Islam (or any faith for that matter) then you most definitely can.

 

Every time a Christian posts on this forum, he or she is immediately attacked by the horde of atheist GOONS, who do EVERYTHING to drag Him down into the mud with them. That's what atheists are about, living, crawling, and swimming in mud.

Atheists claim that humans are animals. Right there, describes just about everything you need to know about them. Atheists admit they are animals, and therefore, ACT LIKE ANIMALS. You can't have a reasonable discussion with animals. Humanity is about lifting men out of their animal nature, and this requires God. God separates man from animal.

That is where we get the word "human". Human actually comes from True Christianity. Atheists prefer to remain animals, with no morals or ethics.


The main atheist is a zionist named Wolverine. This "respectable poster" ONLY creates threads on this forum attacking, slandering, DISRESPECTING theists and TRUE CHRISTIANITY. Then all the atheists join in, laugh, pat themselves on the back, and call it a good day. These atheists don't realize how wrong they are, and I am here to turn this tide against them. We need to remove these atheists and zionists, show them who's boss.

That's God, in case you didn't know.

 

Thank you for proving my point.

 

If that is your true intention on this forum, then naturally you will be faced with opposition.

People, in general, don't want to be converted from their respective beliefs. Especially Atheists.

And disrespecting people and their beliefs is an absolutely TERRIBLE way to go about trying to convert people. By saying "convert or else" - which you have literally said to me numerous times - you are not helping Christianity. Jesus (pbuh) did not spread Christianity like this. He shared God's message, and those who followed him followed him, those who didn't didn't.

I find you more disrespectful towards Christianity than Atheists are, simply because you identify as a Christian yet you give it such a bad image on here.

 

Technically it's supposed to be a debate forum and if we all agree on a particular topic...there won't be much debate going on. In terms of the plethora of atheists on the internet as a whole. I attribute that to one factor.

Anonymity

 

Wow, what a mean spirited claim.

Are you saying we aren't animals? Well, then, Heretic, what are we? Are we bacteria? Are we plants? Are we fungi?

And yet the vast majority of people in prison are religious. Strange, isn't it?

Isn't that what you're doing on this thread? You're a hypocrite, through and through.