Poll: religion on forums: too many?

[MDAWG909]

Ive been reading through recent posts and i noticed that there are ALOT of religios questions and i wanted to know what people actually thought of this...

EDIT: i reallly dont care iether way i just got bored and wanted to push moral questions into peoples faces (although this isnt really 'that' bad)

 

[Jim Grim]

Yeah, and also there's far too much religion-bashing goes on around here, people seem to view religion as something immature and laughable that we should all 'move past.' I'm not religous myself, but c'mon guys. Live and let live.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Religious based topics are better than stupid random polls, or repeated "what would you do if _____".

Or worse, things with titles that don't describe the thread.

Religion is a legitimate topic of discussion, and it tends to get handled reasonably well. It doesn't tend to lead to "stop picking on the US" or "feminists are wrong, I know cause I'm a man" stuff either.

 

[microhive]

It's quite interesting to participate in religious discussions its stimulative nature to make ones creative ability go wild when writing sentences and paragraphs.

I like writing.

 

[MDAWG909]

Religious based topics are better than stupid random polls, or repeated "what would you do if _____".

Or worse, things with titles that don't describe the thread.

Religion is a legitimate topic of discussion, and it tends to get handled reasonably well. It doesn't tend to lead to "stop picking on the US" or "feminists are wrong, I know cause I'm a man" stuff either.

UGH I hate those kinds of posts...

 

[Lilani]

Yeah, and also there's far too much religion-bashing goes on around here, people seem to view religion as something immature and laughable that we should all 'move past.' I'm not religous myself, but c'mon guys. Live and let live.

I've noticed this, too. The general population here seems to be mostly atheist or agnostic. Now there's nothing wrong with that, but it seems many have something they want to prove to the world so they bash religion and faith, legitimize, rinse and repeat until they feel smarter than everyone else who disagrees with them.

As a person of faith, I just find it frustrating. They believe that having faith is akin to believing in Santa Claus, and refuse to even give respect to anyone who has faith. There's nothing wrong with them disagreeing, but something is very wrong when they start treating someone differently based on whether or not they have faith. Not all Christians are the Westboro Baptist Church.

 

[Gigano]

There are quite a lot in the Religion & Politics board.

...Which is by default just fine, as long as they remain there. Outside that it's seldom relevant to bring up, unless it relates to other main topics.

 

[manythings]

That's what the Religion and politics forum is for. If don't want to see the posts? Don't go there.

Yeah, and also there's far too much religion-bashing goes on around here, people seem to view religion as something immature and laughable that we should all 'move past.' I'm not religous myself, but c'mon guys. Live and let live.

I've noticed this, too. The general population here seems to be mostly atheist or agnostic. Now there's nothing wrong with that, but it seems many have something they want to prove to the world so they bash religion and faith, legitimize, rinse and repeat until they feel smarter than everyone else who disagrees with them.

As a person of faith, I just find it frustrating. They believe that having faith is akin to believing in Santa Claus, and refuse to even give respect to anyone who has faith. There's nothing wrong with them disagreeing, but something is very wrong when they start treating someone differently based on whether or not they have faith. Not all Christians are the Westboro Baptist Church or the Roman Catholic Church.

Well someone is already typing a response about how belief in God and Santa are the same thing and, as a Roman Catholic from about fifteen hundred years of Roman Catholics, I'd like to point out the Vatican being retarded doesn't make me retarded.

I find it funnier that Militant Atheists don't notice that they've made it into a religion. They have sacred, uncontradictable scripture, prophets that speak only the truth and a habit of forcing their beliefs on the heathens. I've even read atheists saying the only option was education camps to deal with people of Faith.

 

[theheroofaction]

I know, you'd think people would notice that you're allowed to have different opinions, which was alluded to in a very important document

Spoiler

I'm talking of course of the 1st amendment to the constitution of the U.S of A. and it probably appears in a few other constitutions too

 

[Lilani]

Well someone is already typing a response about how belief in God and Santa are the same thing and, as a Roman Catholic from about fifteen hundred years of Roman Catholics, I'd like to point out the Vatican being retarded doesn't make me retarded.

Well, I suppose that was a bad comparison, lol. You seem to have gotten what I was referring to, though. The RCC gets a lot of crap for being at least 1000 years behind as far as scientific belief is concerned, and from my experience, that is the side of the RCC most non-religious folk think of when it's brought up. They think of the Pope, pedophiles, and that they have an acute fear of having anyone with a vagina in their upper eschilons. Nothing more.

They don't think of how most Catholic churches are more down-to-earth than that. They can't separate the fact from the fiction. That's the Catholic church they know and love to hate, so that's the Catholic church they address. To them, it's the only one that exists.

So, yeah. I guess I should have left it to Westboro Baptist Church. My bad

 

[Blitzwarp]

Forget religion, there's too many depressing posts on this forum. Lighten up, Escapist!

 

[maddawg IAJI]

No there aren't. People are allowed to talk about what they wish. The only thing I hope for them to do is to use the search bar before posting. If they do that and keep it in the Religion and Politics section, then they're more then welcome to post their questions.

 

[Sassafrass]

Forget religion, there's too many depressing posts on this forum. Lighten up, Escapist!

Asking a bunch of teenagers to lighten up is like asking a bunch of hardcore console fanboys to shut up arguing.[footnote]OK, I now I'm gonna get a bit of flack for it so I know that not all teenagers are dark and miserable. But I have yet to see someone over the age of 20 here utter the phrase "I've lost faith in humanity." here.[/footnote] Which is like trying to put out an oil fire with a Super Soaker.

Although I am happy the whole "I've lost faith in humanity!" bollocks has gone now. Jesus, some times that statement was used, I just wanted to tell the person that used it to stop being a prat and ignore it. And also watch the end of Russell Howard's Good News. That would shut them up for a bit, I think.

As for the OP, no. We have a section for that, so why shouldn't they be allowed to discuss it?

 

[Atmos Duality]

The fact that these topicskeeps spilling out of the forums that are explicitly designed for that discussion isn't helping one bit. Really, when people start making topics on already-touchy subjects outside of their respected forum of discussion, it's hard not to see it as trolling.