Why do non believers like to hang around here?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, they do it because they are questioning or insecure in their beliefs. Confident atheists have no use for religious talk and could not care less about online religious debate with anonymous middle aged moms.

This isn't true. I'm not a believer, but I am interested in learning and debate. I'm confident in my beliefs but curious about other views.

+1. Also not a believer, and very secure in that, but I am more familiar with the bible (and its contradictions, frankly) than most self-professed Christians, because I'm fascinated by the subject and I believe it's important to understanding the world and our culture. I love respectfully learning about others' beliefs, and am happy to provide my own thoughts when people are curious about how someone who has received The News is still a non-believer.

As for an even more direct answer to OP's subject-line question -- it's because you seem to constantly have so many questions for us, we can't help but oblige.

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Anonymous wrote:I am new here and was really surprised by it. It’s like if childfree couples would hang out in mom’s forums to discuss parenthood and their opinions about it. Very strange. They are also aggressive sometimes, which is really odd.

These inane threads show up in recent topics.

If you don’t want people to talk about your stinky BBQ sandwich then eat it at home.

I don’t mind. Just curious why those vegans care so much about my BBQ sandwich 😊

Because we are just all here hanging out and you keep pulling out your stinky sandwiches. We wouldn’t care about them at all if you just ate them at home.

But we are hanging out at the BBQ.. (hint, read the name of the message board)

No, we aren’t at a BBQ. That’s why the big smelly sandwich is so out of place.

The message board is called DCUM. Most people read from Recent Topics.

And what forces them to click on a topic from this forum?

Sometimes the smelly sandwiches are too offensive to just ignore. They pollute the whole room.

Also, many of us are tired of you shoving your smelly sandwiches down our throats on IRL.

If you don’t people commenting on them, eat them at home. And keep them out of our government.

This is stupid trolling designed to keep legit discussion out and possibly get thread locked.

Pathetic.

Agree. Reddit has more interesting discussions and real debates, not just bunch of trolls trying to derail conversations. Maybe DCUM admin should remove religion from “recent posts” to avoid triggering those who don’t have much to say on the topic but feel the need to come in and troll.

Great idea. DCUM doesn't want your stupid threads.

Apparently DCUM has a spokesman

What happened, can’t speak for yourself? Feel the need to his behind “DCUM”? Plenty of posters here on DCUM want these threads.

Aside from a handful of nutters, DCUM doesn’t GAF about your idiotic threads.

You do, apparently! Welcome to the hand.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, they do it because they are questioning or insecure in their beliefs. Confident atheists have no use for religious talk and could not care less about online religious debate with anonymous middle aged moms.

I heard that confident religious people don't bother having on-line conversations with godless atheists. They also try to avoid atheists IRL, but they are difficult to pick out unless they are actively displaying their irreligious point of view, the way some religious people do, with pendants, etc, displaying a religious symbol, e.g., a cross.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, they do it because they are questioning or insecure in their beliefs. Confident atheists have no use for religious talk and could not care less about online religious debate with anonymous middle aged moms.

And they're bitter and lonely, like all trolls.

Like you? Why even comment on an obvious atheist thread?

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Anonymous wrote:I am new here and was really surprised by it. It’s like if childfree couples would hang out in mom’s forums to discuss parenthood and their opinions about it. Very strange. They are also aggressive sometimes, which is really odd.

These inane threads show up in recent topics.

If you don’t want people to talk about your stinky BBQ sandwich then eat it at home.

I don’t mind. Just curious why those vegans care so much about my BBQ sandwich 😊

Because we are just all here hanging out and you keep pulling out your stinky sandwiches. We wouldn’t care about them at all if you just ate them at home.

But we are hanging out at the BBQ.. (hint, read the name of the message board)

No, we aren’t at a BBQ. That’s why the big smelly sandwich is so out of place.

The message board is called DCUM. Most people read from Recent Topics.

And what forces them to click on a topic from this forum?

Sometimes the smelly sandwiches are too offensive to just ignore. They pollute the whole room.

Also, many of us are tired of you shoving your smelly sandwiches down our throats on IRL.

If you don’t people commenting on them, eat them at home. And keep them out of our government.

This is stupid trolling designed to keep legit discussion out and possibly get thread locked.

Pathetic.

Agree. Reddit has more interesting discussions and real debates, not just bunch of trolls trying to derail conversations. Maybe DCUM admin should remove religion from “recent posts” to avoid triggering those who don’t have much to say on the topic but feel the need to come in and troll.

Great idea. DCUM doesn't want your stupid threads.

Apparently DCUM has a spokesman

What happened, can’t speak for yourself? Feel the need to his behind “DCUM”? Plenty of posters here on DCUM want these threads.

Aside from a handful of nutters, DCUM doesn’t GAF about your idiotic threads.

You do, apparently! Welcome to the hand.

No, I’d be thrilled if Jeff removed them from Recent Topics.

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Anonymous wrote:I am new here and was really surprised by it. It’s like if childfree couples would hang out in mom’s forums to discuss parenthood and their opinions about it. Very strange. They are also aggressive sometimes, which is really odd.

These inane threads show up in recent topics.

If you don’t want people to talk about your stinky BBQ sandwich then eat it at home.

I don’t mind. Just curious why those vegans care so much about my BBQ sandwich 😊

Because we are just all here hanging out and you keep pulling out your stinky sandwiches. We wouldn’t care about them at all if you just ate them at home.

But we are hanging out at the BBQ.. (hint, read the name of the message board)

No, we aren’t at a BBQ. That’s why the big smelly sandwich is so out of place.

The message board is called DCUM. Most people read from Recent Topics.

And what forces them to click on a topic from this forum?

Sometimes the smelly sandwiches are too offensive to just ignore. They pollute the whole room.

Also, many of us are tired of you shoving your smelly sandwiches down our throats on IRL.

If you don’t people commenting on them, eat them at home. And keep them out of our government.

This is stupid trolling designed to keep legit discussion out and possibly get thread locked.

Pathetic.

Agree. Reddit has more interesting discussions and real debates, not just bunch of trolls trying to derail conversations. Maybe DCUM admin should remove religion from “recent posts” to avoid triggering those who don’t have much to say on the topic but feel the need to come in and troll.

Great idea. DCUM doesn't want your stupid threads.

Apparently DCUM has a spokesman

What happened, can’t speak for yourself? Feel the need to his behind “DCUM”? Plenty of posters here on DCUM want these threads.

Aside from a handful of nutters, DCUM doesn’t GAF about your idiotic threads.

You do, apparently! Welcome to the hand.

No, I’d be thrilled if Jeff removed them from Recent Topics.

Yes, because you MUST click on every link in recent topics. There’s no way not to! Someone should fix that.

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“Non-believers” proselytize their beliefs more than any religious person I’ve ever met

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Anonymous wrote:“Non-believers” proselytize their beliefs more than any religious person I’ve ever met

Maybe it just seems that way to you because you don't want to hear about lack of religious belief and you like to post on the religion forum.

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Anonymous wrote:“Non-believers” proselytize their beliefs more than any religious person I’ve ever met

Yeah? Find me one post with an atheist telling you to stop believing.

After you look up the meaning of the word “proselytize”.

You’ll find many which ask you to defend your beliefs. If you consider that “proselytizing” then that communicates how you feel about the strength of your beliefs, doesn’t it?

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Anonymous wrote:I am new here and was really surprised by it. It’s like if childfree couples would hang out in mom’s forums to discuss parenthood and their opinions about it. Very strange. They are also aggressive sometimes, which is really odd.

These inane threads show up in recent topics.

If you don’t want people to talk about your stinky BBQ sandwich then eat it at home.

I don’t mind. Just curious why those vegans care so much about my BBQ sandwich 😊

Because we are just all here hanging out and you keep pulling out your stinky sandwiches. We wouldn’t care about them at all if you just ate them at home.

But we are hanging out at the BBQ.. (hint, read the name of the message board)

No, we aren’t at a BBQ. That’s why the big smelly sandwich is so out of place.

The message board is called DCUM. Most people read from Recent Topics.

And what forces them to click on a topic from this forum?

Sometimes the smelly sandwiches are too offensive to just ignore. They pollute the whole room.

Also, many of us are tired of you shoving your smelly sandwiches down our throats on IRL.

If you don’t people commenting on them, eat them at home. And keep them out of our government.

This is stupid trolling designed to keep legit discussion out and possibly get thread locked.

Pathetic.

Agree. Reddit has more interesting discussions and real debates, not just bunch of trolls trying to derail conversations. Maybe DCUM admin should remove religion from “recent posts” to avoid triggering those who don’t have much to say on the topic but feel the need to come in and troll.

Great idea. DCUM doesn't want your stupid threads.

Apparently DCUM has a spokesman

What happened, can’t speak for yourself? Feel the need to his behind “DCUM”? Plenty of posters here on DCUM want these threads.

Aside from a handful of nutters, DCUM doesn’t GAF about your idiotic threads.

You do, apparently! Welcome to the hand.

No, I’d be thrilled if Jeff removed them from Recent Topics.

Yes, because you MUST click on every link in recent topics. There’s no way not to! Someone should fix that.

As I said, sometimes the smelly sandwiches are too offensive to just ignore. They pollute the whole room.

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Anonymous wrote:Recent topics.

Is these an invite only space?

No, but when you see more posts from people who are non believers it makes it strange.
If you don’t like religion just don’t hung around.

If you want more posts from believers, you can start them, and end the strangeness.

Adding to this poster responding to previous one quoted - DC is generally a well educated area. More education typically equals less belief.

Can you share the source? I am curious about this statement. Wikipedia says otherwise:

“According to the General Social Survey, which has collected data on Americans since 1972, people who are educated often are more religious by various measures. For instance, as of 2010 sociologist Philip Schwadel found that, with each additional year of education, the likelihood of attending religious services increased 15%, the likelihood of reading the Bible at least occasionally increased by 9%. The likelihood of switching to a mainline Protestant denomination increased by 13%"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_education

Things have changed since 2010 - 15 years ago.

There is more data if you follow the link.

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Anonymous wrote:Recent topics.

Is these an invite only space?

No, but when you see more posts from people who are non believers it makes it strange.
If you don’t like religion just don’t hung around.

If you want more posts from believers, you can start them, and end the strangeness.

Adding to this poster responding to previous one quoted - DC is generally a well educated area. More education typically equals less belief.

Can you share the source? I am curious about this statement. Wikipedia says otherwise:

“According to the General Social Survey, which has collected data on Americans since 1972, people who are educated often are more religious by various measures. For instance, as of 2010 sociologist Philip Schwadel found that, with each additional year of education, the likelihood of attending religious services increased 15%, the likelihood of reading the Bible at least occasionally increased by 9%. The likelihood of switching to a mainline Protestant denomination increased by 13%"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_education

Things have changed since 2010 - 15 years ago.

There is more data if you follow the link.

And it's all old.

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Because we love to look at those that believe in fairy tales and how it works out for them. 10,000 different gods, which one is CORRECT one.

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Anonymous wrote:I am new here and was really surprised by it. It’s like if childfree couples would hang out in mom’s forums to discuss parenthood and their opinions about it. Very strange. They are also aggressive sometimes, which is really odd.

Yeah, We are child free by choice we don’t believe in having children but let’s discuss parenting philosophies with you parents because we are interested in it.

But, those people are mostly Antithesis pretending to like religious discussions.

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Anonymous wrote:“Non-believers” proselytize their beliefs more than any religious person I’ve ever met

Yeah? Find me one post with an atheist telling you to stop believing.

After you look up the meaning of the word “proselytize”.

You’ll find many which ask you to defend your beliefs. If you consider that “proselytizing” then that communicates how you feel about the strength of your beliefs, doesn’t it?

GOod point -- you don't find any atheists saying you have to not believe, otherwise something terrible will happen to you (i.e., you'll burn for eternity). Atheists think that we all go to the same place when we die. The same place all living things go. Nowhere.