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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ which brings us back to the point that some of the reaction against atheism is a reaction to the awful behavior of a minority of atheists.

Of course there's some bigotry against atheists.

But in a forum like DCUM, pp wasn't able to scrape together a single anti-atheist quote that didn't attack atheists' bad behavior as opposed to lack of religion itself. Thanks, DCUM atheist minority![/quote]

Eh, somebody called atheists "pathetic" on the Christmas thread, but for the most part DCUM is pretty tolerant of atheists.  [/quote]

Agree. I can think of 1-2 religious posters who take on atheism itself with words like "pathetic" and "table scraps." We all agree they're out of line and as I recall 6-7 Christians including me and a minister jumped on the table scraps poster.

Now atheists are often attacked when they behave like jerks here. I hope you guys can see the difference.[/quote]

I feel like you guys (religious forum regulars if you will) have some trolls who enjoy screwing with you. Maybe they're atheists, maybe they just like being internet trolls, maybe some combination. And they screw with you by denigrating religion across this forum in random threads and by being rude.

Then you have the group of atheists like me (17:19) who always show up when there's a thread that specifically calls out atheists. We engage in intelligent and rational discourse. We never see these other threads because why would I open a random religious forum thread that has nothing to do with me?

For some reason the actions of the trolls outweigh the posts of the atheists who always arrive when specifically requested who are polite, respectful and willing to engage in discussion.

It just feels exceptionally unfair to have my belief system's reputation hinge on your experience with internet trolls. I don't come out of the relationship forum thinking all men are sex starved jerks with low drive wives. I don't judge all republicans by the comments section on national review and wapo news articles. Maybe you shouldn't judge atheists just because you happen to know that there are a couple jerks who claim to be atheists, who are mean, and who post here a lot. [/quote]

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