Is it "insulting" to refer to god as "mythical"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

^^^ Typical. Instead of addressing the question of whether calling God/Gods a "myth" is insulting, here's an atheist hammering on the reductive, analysis-free, childish insults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Atheist editor here. Just for everyone’s information— someone (probably OP) has impersonated me at least twice in the last 48 hours on this thread. I posted to the same reported those posts and all related posts were promptly deleted.

To avoid any confusion and to make OP’s continued sock-puppeting more obvious, this is my last post in the thread. Any further claims to be me will be … wait for it … posts in bad faith. Shocking that OP would behave that way, I know. /s

10:28, are you the OP of this thread, or just an atheist sock puppet, who is dishonestly swamping the thread with your sock puppetting?

No response, just more insults. Perhaps we can conclude that the atheist here is indeed the atheist that impersonated others earlier in the thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

^^^ Typical. Instead of addressing the question of whether calling God/Gods a "myth" is insulting, here's an atheist hammering on the reductive, analysis-free, childish insults.

Maybe off topic, but it’s a concise statement that isn’t childish or insulting. Nothing wrong with it.

DP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

^^^ Typical. Instead of addressing the question of whether calling God/Gods a "myth" is insulting, here's an atheist hammering on the reductive, analysis-free, childish insults.

Maybe off topic, but it’s a concise statement that isn’t childish or insulting. Nothing wrong with it.

DP.

It's like me calling you "childish." No explanation, no rationale, just random ad hominems. Even if it's true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

^^^ Typical. Instead of addressing the question of whether calling God/Gods a "myth" is insulting, here's an atheist hammering on the reductive, analysis-free, childish insults.

Maybe off topic, but it’s a concise statement that isn’t childish or insulting. Nothing wrong with it.

DP.

It's like me calling you "childish." No explanation, no rationale, just random ad hominems. Even if it's true.

You don’t need extra, flowery words when stating basic facts: “there is no evidence”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

+1. I don't care what somebody thinks about my faith. I am bothered a little bit by the behavior itself. It doesn't affect me (if anything I'd think this behavior pushes people further into their faith because they don't want to be like the atheist saying this), and I agree it's basically a waste of everybody's time. But aggressive rudeness isn't something I'd ever feel completely comfortable with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

^^^ Typical. Instead of addressing the question of whether calling God/Gods a "myth" is insulting, here's an atheist hammering on the reductive, analysis-free, childish insults.

Maybe off topic, but it’s a concise statement that isn’t childish or insulting. Nothing wrong with it.

DP.

It's like me calling you "childish." No explanation, no rationale, just random ad hominems. Even if it's true.

You don’t need extra, flowery words when stating basic facts: “there is no evidence”.

So say "there is no evidence" and people of faith will nod and say you're right, it's about faith. Calling it a "myth" is another level of rudeness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

+1. I don't care what somebody thinks about my faith. I am bothered a little bit by the behavior itself. It doesn't affect me (if anything I'd think this behavior pushes people further into their faith because they don't want to be like the atheist saying this), and I agree it's basically a waste of everybody's time. But aggressive rudeness isn't something I'd ever feel completely comfortable with.

PP and yes, the rudeness would bother me, but not the content of the statement. Plenty of people don't believe what I believe, whether they have a different faith or none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

If it is a waste of time why are you here and why type a clearly thoughtful message?

Others think it IS important, even if you don’t.

Also no one here “walks up” to anyone. It’s an open forum. Participate at will, and ignore anything you choose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

If it is a waste of time why are you here and why type a clearly thoughtful message?

Others think it IS important, even if you don’t.

Also no one here “walks up” to anyone. It’s an open forum. Participate at will, and ignore anything you choose.

DP. You enter threads about religion (recently: the "I want to return to God" thread) to tell everybody there that God is a myth.

That's virtual "walking up." There's no other way to describe it. You've been called a proselytizer by the moderator no less.

Tell us this: You don't want people proselytizing on your atheism threads. How is your behavior on religion threads (walking up + insulting) different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

If it is a waste of time why are you here and why type a clearly thoughtful message?

Others think it IS important, even if you don’t.

Also no one here “walks up” to anyone. It’s an open forum. Participate at will, and ignore anything you choose.

DP. You enter threads about religion (recently: the "I want to return to God" thread) to tell everybody there that God is a myth.

That's virtual "walking up." There's no other way to describe it. You've been called a proselytizer by the moderator no less.

Tell us this: You don't want people proselytizing on your atheism threads. How is your behavior on religion threads (walking up + insulting) different?

You are not telling the truth- I encourage all thoughts in any thread dealing with religion in the religion forum. If you want to proselytize here, please do. I am capable of responding thoughtfully.

So, please proceed! And you have my sincere “blessings “.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

If it is a waste of time why are you here and why type a clearly thoughtful message?

Others think it IS important, even if you don’t.

Also no one here “walks up” to anyone. It’s an open forum. Participate at will, and ignore anything you choose.

DP. You enter threads about religion (recently: the "I want to return to God" thread) to tell everybody there that God is a myth.

That's virtual "walking up." There's no other way to describe it. You've been called a proselytizer by the moderator no less.

Tell us this: You don't want people proselytizing on your atheism threads. How is your behavior on religion threads (walking up + insulting) different?

You are not telling the truth- I encourage all thoughts in any thread dealing with religion in the religion forum. If you want to proselytize here, please do. I am capable of responding thoughtfully.

So, please proceed! And you have my sincere “blessings “.

We're discussing behavior. Specifically, we're discussing confronting people--in person or virtually--to tell them their belief/nonbelief is a laughable child's thinking on par with a myth. Yes, of course, most of us respect a thoughtful back-and-forth. It should be obvious that insults aren't thoughtful.

The correct analogy would be entering an atheist thread to tell atheists that they're sad people with no morals. And then dominating the thread so atheists can't get a word in edgewise, gish galloping after losing a line of argument, bumping old posts to get away from take-downs, and winding up with straight-up insults like "immoral" or "depraved." (Some have called the couple of atheists who do this trolls.)

I can't see anybody condoning that, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

If it is a waste of time why are you here and why type a clearly thoughtful message?

Others think it IS important, even if you don’t.

Also no one here “walks up” to anyone. It’s an open forum. Participate at will, and ignore anything you choose.

DP. You enter threads about religion (recently: the "I want to return to God" thread) to tell everybody there that God is a myth.

That's virtual "walking up." There's no other way to describe it. You've been called a proselytizer by the moderator no less.

Tell us this: You don't want people proselytizing on your atheism threads. How is your behavior on religion threads (walking up + insulting) different?

You are not telling the truth- I encourage all thoughts in any thread dealing with religion in the religion forum. If you want to proselytize here, please do. I am capable of responding thoughtfully.

So, please proceed! And you have my sincere “blessings “.

We're discussing behavior. Specifically, we're discussing confronting people--in person or virtually--to tell them their belief/nonbelief is a laughable child's thinking on par with a myth. Yes, of course, most of us respect a thoughtful back-and-forth. It should be obvious that insults aren't thoughtful.

The correct analogy would be entering an atheist thread to tell atheists that they're sad people with no morals. And then dominating the thread so atheists can't get a word in edgewise, gish galloping after losing a line of argument, bumping old posts to get away from take-downs, and winding up with straight-up insults like "immoral" or "depraved." (Some have called the couple of atheists who do this trolls.)

I can't see anybody condoning that, either.

First, I don't know how there is anything such as an "atheist thread". This is an open religion forum and I think all beliefs should be welcomed and encouraged to participate.

But I go back to a question posted prior and largely ignored: why is it offensive to say "Jesus Is Not Lord" because people of faith might read it but not offensive to say "Jesus Is Lord" when people who have other beliefs might see it?

Can you answer that one for me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a myth and there is no evidence any of them are true.

Ok, but evidence is not usually a standard for faith. You believing religion is a myth shouldn't diminish how believers feel about it.

While I believe it's rude and insulting to walk up to a person of faith and tell them their religion is a myth, I'm not insulted, because what someone else believes about my religion doesn't affect what I believe about my religion. It's just a waste of everyone's time.

If it is a waste of time why are you here and why type a clearly thoughtful message?

Others think it IS important, even if you don’t.

Also no one here “walks up” to anyone. It’s an open forum. Participate at will, and ignore anything you choose.

DP. You enter threads about religion (recently: the "I want to return to God" thread) to tell everybody there that God is a myth.

That's virtual "walking up." There's no other way to describe it. You've been called a proselytizer by the moderator no less.

Tell us this: You don't want people proselytizing on your atheism threads. How is your behavior on religion threads (walking up + insulting) different?

You are not telling the truth- I encourage all thoughts in any thread dealing with religion in the religion forum. If you want to proselytize here, please do. I am capable of responding thoughtfully.

So, please proceed! And you have my sincere “blessings “.

We're discussing behavior. Specifically, we're discussing confronting people--in person or virtually--to tell them their belief/nonbelief is a laughable child's thinking on par with a myth. Yes, of course, most of us respect a thoughtful back-and-forth. It should be obvious that insults aren't thoughtful.

The correct analogy would be entering an atheist thread to tell atheists that they're sad people with no morals. And then dominating the thread so atheists can't get a word in edgewise, gish galloping after losing a line of argument, bumping old posts to get away from take-downs, and winding up with straight-up insults like "immoral" or "depraved." (Some have called the couple of atheists who do this trolls.)

I can't see anybody condoning that, either.

First, I don't know how there is anything such as an "atheist thread". This is an open religion forum and I think all beliefs should be welcomed and encouraged to participate.

But I go back to a question posted prior and largely ignored: why is it offensive to say "Jesus Is Not Lord" because people of faith might read it but not offensive to say "Jesus Is Lord" when people who have other beliefs might see it?

Can you answer that one for me?

DP (really). I think we've beaten this dead horse long enough. If someone says Jesus is Lord, I don't see how it's "offensive." I think they're a little deluded maybe, but it's really not offensive to atheists. Maybe to adherents of other religions thoiugh?