How is picking a religion not being anti every other religion you have never heard of and then how is a religion sane based on your declaration?
Ok, to illustrate:
I like watching motocross sports. I don;t like watching truck rallies.
These two things are basically in the same category and obviously I prefer one over the other.
This doesn't mean I'm
anti-truck rallies. I'm just not interested in them.
To demonize anti-theists is to demonize a belief.
To regard any criticism of your group, or any small fringe element of a group you belong to, as an act of general demonization of your group, is a clear sign of fanaticism.
If I say I don't like it when certain anti-religious people try to conduct their own private propaganda campaigns
against religion in a place that was meant to accommodate interaction between people of all religions and beliefs, including non-belief, that isn't going to sound like an indictment against all atheists, or even all anti-religious people, except to someone who's so immersed in black and white thinking that interpreting anything in terms other than a bigoted, generalized perspective is impossible for them.
If I object when see a bunch of kids throwing rocks at a church, this doesn't mean I hate kids, or that I hate anyone who isn't a member of that church---I may not even be a member myself--, or that I'm sympathetic with the church or the beliefs it represents.
All it means is I don't think kids should be throwing rocks at a church.
And of course, if anyone steps in and tries to get these kids to stop throwing rocks, the kids are going to call that person names, whether they believe what they're saying or not.
You obviously have judged them to be evil and not deserving of a place in RF.
If that were true I would have reported the half dozen rule 1 violations that have occurred against me personally over the course of this thread. I haven't and i don't intend to.
For that matter, there's one person who, aside from violating rule 1 in regards to me, has started stalking me in various ways around the forums.
If I wanted to, I could get him banned for this alone. Stalking someone is one of the surest ways to get yourself thrown out of this place.
I haven't reported him either, and I probably wont unless it gets too weird or annoying.
But you also don't seem to understand their belief system. You have attacked people in this thread over and over again for defending anti-theists and feel justified like a catholic in a thread called why mormonism is a joke.
If you see me or have seen me attacking anyone over the course of this thread, feel free to report me.
Pointing out certain inappropriate behaviors isn't the same as attacking someone.
Also: when someone seems obsessively bent on attracting and maintaining your attention and you deny it to them, they may see that itself as an attack, but then there are people who consider it a personal attack when the world denies them anything.
Notable anti-theists have made many good arguments you just ignore and instead attack people with ad-homs who are also probably not anti-theists...
Until you provide a few examples, you're just gossiping. And I'll give it all the consideration gossip deserves.
Ultimately what is an anti-theist? Someone who believes the world would probably be better without theism?
People are entitles to think whatever they like. They're still required (by the rules and just by common courtesy) to behave in certain ways that don't make things unnecessarily hard or unpleasant for other people.
Why would they think that and how would a site dedicated to discussion of various beliefs not accept them?
Not accept them? If the site hasn't accepted them then who have I been arguing with all through this thread?
Anti-Theists might not only be theists or deists... but even if they are atheists they should still be allowed to discuss their beliefs here. Agreed?
Why yes, in the same way I agree that the sky should be blue, water should be wet, and dogs should be allowed to scratch for fleas.
Are you trying to take the concept of the straw man argument to a new level?
Faith based? I told you a very practical universal happening.
