How many here are believers?

[Adam]

 

['Butterflies']

When I see things about religion on a forum, I am amazed on how much it differs per country.

Me too. A lot of the American Christians are very fundie. A lot of them believe the earth is less than 10000 years old, and have other crazy views. Attending church in America seems common for Christians.

I've only known 1 person like that, and everyone agreed he was a total freak. Most of the Scottish Christians are very liberal. I grew up around a lot of Catholics and it was rare to meet any that regularly attended church, or had any interest in religion at all.

[ῦ]

You're right. I shoulda done that.

But anyway, just as I thought, most here are atheists/agnostics/deists. Must be very lonely here without the fundamentalist Christians and Muslims.

Andnothingofvaluewaslost

Seriously, I run a forum that is several times the size of this one. My least favourite members, right after spammers (banned 1788 of them today, yayness  ) are the fundies. They bring their backwardsass beliefs into EVERYTHING. Worse yet, I can't ban them just for being fundies, I have to wait for them to slip up and attack someone.

1788 spammers?! Why so many? What an awful day. 

Indeed. I2 only has 467 spammers.

20 is a bad day for me.  1788 would take me literally all day.

I just banned the ISPs (Indian, Chinese, Philipino and one from Singapore) and had Gareth do a batch operation - if posts = 0 then remove signature and blank profile.

[Adam]

 

['andersom']

When I see things about religion on a forum, I am amazed on how much it differs per country.

Me too. A lot of the American Christians are very fundie. A lot of them believe the earth is less than 10000 years old, and have other crazy views. Attending church in America seems common for Christians.

I've only known 1 person like that, and everyone agreed he was a total freak. Most of the Scottish Christians are very liberal. I grew up around a lot of Catholics and it was rare to meet any that regularly attended church, or had any interest in religion at all.

Atheists in the US seem to be more fundie in general too. But when you see how they have been prosecuted, that makes sense. The believers are/were the enemy that can/could make you lose a job or things like that.

[Adam]

no such thing as a fundie atheist 

[Adam]

lol who were the two  cunts who voted "Christian: Yes, I believe in God and His Son, Jesus Christ." ??

['andersom']

no such thing as a fundie atheist 

As soon as someone thinks there is no truth to be found outside the truth her or she is holding on to, that is a fundie. No matter if it is religious or not. 

[Adam]

Well what truth is there to be found in religion?

[earthboundmisfit]

Religion was created to control people.

[midlifeaspie]

no such thing as a fundie atheist 

Sure there are.  People who can't stop telling everyone about how they are atheist, and how religious people are idiots/wrong/dumb (take your pick).

[Adam]

but religious people ARE idiots/wrong/dumb (take your pick) 

[P7PSP]

but religious people ARE idiots/wrong/dumb (take your pick) 

Smugness of piety afflicts evangelical atheists as well as some religious people.

[Callaway]

but religious people ARE idiots/wrong/dumb (take your pick) 

I don't believe that.  There are parts of religions that seem pretty unbelieveable, but that doesn't make religious people idiots, wrong or dumb.

People who constantly insist that all people who belong to a certain group share some stereotyped characteristic seem ignorant and fundamentalist to me, no matter what side they take about religion.

It would be like someone insisting that all trans people are gay, no matter what evidence there is to the contrary.

[Adam]

That's totally different. That would be similar if I was saying all christians are muslim