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As Richard Dawkins often points out, we are all atheists, its just a matter of which god we don't believe in. That is usually determined by the culture that you were born into. One man's religion is another man's superstition.


by definition a culture is defined by the traits its members have in common. The members of this forum are largely from western cultures that are steeped in Christianity.

So for the same reason that we communicate in the shared language of English and redirect people who try to communicate in a different language to a forum that speaks the language in question, we also tend to communicate in shared Christian ideology. There's nothing invasive about that at all, its just the way all groups function.

Whats offensive is when the minority in a culture tries to recreate the culture in his own image by creating laws that require the existing culture to abandon its key characteristics.

Bob was looking for a rule that specifically forbade the conversations he doesn't like. When he couldn't find one, he made a straw man appeal presenting such discussions as being injurious to the group in hopes that the group would agree and forum outrage would create the rule that doesn't exist, and that the forum members would enforce it with peer pressure.

But the fact remains that the vast majority of forum members are not offended by references to prayer and Christianity, and only a handful of forum members ever support the recurring requests for such a ban.

Furthermore it is mainly this censorship topic that stirs up strife. All the other faith-based discussion is benign and full of good will

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