To be religious is simply to follow a religion in my view.
Hence I see what you say as non-sequitur
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Why are most people who answer my questions atheists ?
- Thread starter Massimo2002
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Hence I see what you say as non-sequitur
Well we should be but many religious folk just seem to want to preach and not have their ideas challenged in my view.
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
Yes, you often do @danieldemol 
Aren't here plenty of religious forums where people just preach and support each others' views; where religious opinions go unchallenged?
I occasionally run across people who've been kicked off such fora for raising questions or expressing skepticism.
To the contrary,Yes, you often do @danieldemol
I post pretty much exclusively in religious debates and welcome the challenge that dissent provides.
Your slander is dishonest in my view.
The factor that the two polls listed here didn't figure in is the activity. One or two very active people of any religion would certainly make it seem like that faith is overrepresented. It would be interesting to do the survey based on # of posts rather than # of posters.
How can we have any confidence our beliefs if they aren't challenged? We could be basing ideas on factual or logical errors.
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
Okay, I apologise for the confusion, if you quote the section you are responding to it will be clearer for next time thanks
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
Hey, I'm an oppressed minority
I'm no atheist, but I do read a lot of questions posed, and contribute to very few, because either I feel I have nothing at all to contribute, or the topic doesn't interest me at all. Lots of times other people have already said what I would have said, so why repeat that point?
Most people, yes. Unfortunately, a few bad apples can spoil the whole bunch.
dybmh
ויהי מבדיל בין מים למים
If you'd ever like a jewish opinion, feel free to tag me. ( that's with the "at" sign. @dybmh ) There is maybe 1 active muslim here that I am aware of. Yes, this "religious" forum is a populated by many atheists. They are very eager to talk about their atheism.
Nah. That has nothing to do with it. This forum doesn't have barely any active christians, muslims, and jewish people anymore.
dybmh
ויהי מבדיל בין מים למים
As I've stated before, that's false victimhood.
Sure it does. I'm one of those people that has no interest in debating my views. I'm glad to share them with people who ask.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
I'm not sure this is accurate.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Well there's nobody stopping them unless the membership of theists in this forum is notably less than that of atheists.
It's a bit like the political stuff , where I'm in the minority and the left wing is in the majority so you see more pro left postings.
Its just the way it is. Not that there's something admiss about it.
It is Religious forums, and not Theist forums which is where I think people don't recognize the difference thinking it should be dominated by the latter.
I don't think the people here are mostly atheists
Maybe circumstances just worked out that way?????
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
It's not overrun with Buddhists or Sikhs either.
I've been here almost twenty years, and there seems to me there's more religiosity now than there was then.
We've had a few Sikhs since I've been around. None active currently that I'm aware of.
We have a decent representation of Buddhists here relative to the Buddhist population in world. I can think of at least five off the top of my head which are currently active.