I'm sick of the free reign atheists get to troll, harass, and abuse theists on forums like this, and engaging in the toxicity makes me become toxic at well.
That's all you, amigo. You have emotional reactions to dissent. Look at the demeanor of the people you object to. They don't call your words toxic, even those I quoted above. Why? Because they don't take them personally.
It's an all-too-common phenomenon on these threads. So many of you frame these discussions as attacks. Another posted called the reaction to his posting swarming to attack. But it's only coming from all of you, who I suspect simply aren't accustomed to academic culture, where discussion is encouraged and not generally taken personally or leading to emotional reaction. You've entered the marketplace of ideas here, which includes rigorous thinkers who enjoy dialectic, but you came unprepared for how that works, and now, your feelings are hurt.
here is an atheist coming in presuming a theist cannot handle any form of disagreement
Many of you can't. Look at your reaction here. What have you read that causes you to respond like this? You've been asked to provide examples of what you call toxic posting from critical thinkers, but where are these examples? They're in your imagination, which understands dispassionate discourse as attack.
I gave an example, and I won't be harassed by you further.
Your case here is extremely weak. And look at what you call harassment. This is from
@Evangelicalhumanist, who is as polite and compassionate as anybody can be: "
I did not "presume," anything. I asked you to give us an example or two of what you call "toxicity." I'm unsure why you seem unwilling to do that. Surely you know that nobody is going to respond well to generalized, very unspecific criticism. I'm sure you wouldn't yourself"
Like I said, your reaction is all you and entirely inappropriate.
I've never once denied theists can be hostile etc, not one time. This forum has a terrible trait of thinking everything is one sided when there's problems on both sides
You like to depict yourself as balanced, but you've never criticized what you call hostility from a theist, never called it toxic, and to my knowledge, never melted down like this after reading one's post.
*Staff Edit* Your hatred for atheists is palpable, irrational, and you're far from alone, even on this short thread.
And you no doubt find this post toxic. If so, why? Because you have been criticized and disagreed with? Welcome to the world of dialectic. If you disagree with anything you read, you're expected to explain why it's wrong in your opinion. If you think I wrote something that is wrong here, you are expected to identify the words and rebut (falsify) them if you can. If you can't, your opinions are rejected. Instead, you want to complain about the mistreatment you say you receive without making a case for that opinion. So, your opinions and complaint are rejected.
