Reply To: Question about the guidelines…
@Belle. If you as an atheist were to meet a theist on neutral ground, then you are both entitled to say your thing as equally valid participants. You could call theists ignorant and they could call atheists stupid. Much of a muchness.
If you as an atheist went and sat in a church during a theist session, and for every statement made from a religious perspective, you piped up that it was a silly idea and this (atheist) way is the right way, you’d probably be thrown out, because you were the one out of place in a church where others congregate to share their theist beliefs and philosophies.
On an atheist site, some ex-Mormon member posting in a forum is quite likely to explete about the nastiness of Mormons because he or she is venting in the right place. A theist coming here and posting about the nastiness of atheists is not equatable. It’s provocative. Because of the place.
