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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well this thread is a new low in childishness, efforts to manufacture a false sense of outrage, and general pointlessness.

Already the insults against faith have been just as bad as anything on that other thread. But who cares about that, not me. Just pointing it out for the record.

The truly sad thing about this thread is the only "point" is a transparent desire to annoy people of faith and for retaliation.

If you *really* want to know what religious people think, the dumbest way to go about it is to build walls (are theists Mexico?) against their views so that you can speculate among your uninformed selves.

And what's with the whining that any theist who comes here to tell you what SHE actually thinks is really telling YOU what to think. Unbelievably stupid.

I started a thread on the feedback forum about how we need usernames on this one. I don't know if it's technically possible.[/quote]

To be fair, don't think OP should have posted this but they have [b]literally used am anti atheists posts verbatim to reply.[/b] Here you are all saying its crazy offensive. Over on the other thread I'm being told that groundhog is far more hateful than the original anti atheist poster that said everything this post is based on[/quote]

I was wondering if anyone would notice...
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I didn't notice any of this, only the insults flying back and forth between the sides. Can you point out anything that actually verges on being clever (if we can agree to call parroting clever)? The "atheists only" just makes this a circle jerk imo.[/quote]

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/240/608392.page

6 posts down on page 17[/quote]

Here is the precise exchange in the other thread which OP of this thread uncleverly miscontrued:

The atheist poster, upset that someone else stated an opinion about atheists without actually discussing it with atheists first, said:

"If someone was genuinely interested in what motivated another group of people they would be interested in getting that group's perspective. If they just wanted to talk sh $% and feel superior about themselves then they'd probably take this proposed path."

And the response to the upset atheist was as follows:

"Why do you think religious people would necessarily want, need or value the input from atheists concerning what the atheists believe motivates atheists? By definition, religious people and atheists have fundamentally divergent views of how the universe works. Why in your opinion do you feel entitled to inject your input into a discussion by people who do not see the world as you do? One thing for sure is that atheists are pretty much as dogmatic in their world view as the most religious of believers. No one calls themselves an atheist unless they have crossed that line.

The mere fact that you don't think other people are entitled to have their own opinions without your input (thanks anyway) is interesting. I'm not allowed to formulate my opinion about something unless you tell me what to think first? Is that how it goes?"

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So--is there anything in the above response to the atheist remotely suggesting that the atheist was disentitled to post whatever he/she wanted to post in  the other thread.  No.   Nothing remotely suggesting that the atheist's absolute right to post in the other thread should in any way be censored.   All the other poster was pointing out to the upset atheist was that there was no obligation on the part of anyone to pay attention to whatever the upset atheist wanted to say as a precondition of forming an opinion about atheists.

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