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I don't argue with people here thinking I'm going to change their minds. It's for the people reading. Always has been.
Arguing with others on here has also helped to keep my mind sharp. Without constant engagement, whenever I'm approached on the street, I'd be struggling to keep up. Not to mention, people post a lot of interesting facts and news on these forums, so it's a way of keeping up with new developments as well and discussing them among similarly minded people.
Also, arguing with others helps to better understand my own position. When I first discovered the fallacy God of the Gaps, I did it while driving down the road with my old man on the way to a job. It represented the first epiphany and my first foray into atheism. From there, I've been increasing my knowledge of common theist arguments. When I first started my life of disbelief, I couldn't answer any "big questions" that religion had an answer to--because I didn't know. I came to realize eventually that religion doesn't either--and that's the point.
I post here because I enjoy articulating my views in a written form. I share my story, my journey from rabid pentecostal christian to atheist mainly so others may also find freedom from religion. I was assisted in my search by other atheists online and I feel I am passing the torch so to speak.
I pedict (threadwise) that at the end of the day, the atheists will rejoice in their atheism and the Christians will rejoice in their strenghtened faith despite what the otherside has to say. That is healthy.
I post here because I think religion is detrimental to the human race. I can think of nothing that religion has done for us that we could not have accomplished without it. I point that out whenever possible.
Absolutely, and much that hasn't been accomplished due to the obstructionists and mythology based ignorance. We may survive religion, but right now it's not looking that good, the willful ignorance of religion seems to have a strangle hold on reason.
Yet we hate, discriminate and kill over these feelings.
That cuts both ways.
For instance, note how many posts on these boards by atheists and agnostics drip with scorn and hatred directed not only at Christianity and God, but at Christians themselves. It's a rare comment where the poster doesn't dip into a deep bag of ridicule and belittling comments, rather than simply discuss something. It's so common that it could be called the norm. Some, by their own admission, come here for no other purpose than to revile and make fun of Christians and their beliefs. You rarely, if ever, see that from the Christians here.
The point is that the discrimination and hatred is hardly the exclusive domain of the religious folks here.
He. When you click on my screename, that's me in the foreground.
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