Has General Discussion Been Hostile to Religious Believers recently?

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305. As if to demonstrate the point...

You know Warren, just a personal comment, if I may.

You seem awfully certain about what is "bullshit" and terribly eager to push an anti-belief agenda. On another OP, about what the GOP is doing to the SSDI program, you weighed in without even knowing, evidently, what SSDI was. Doesn't that constitute a form of "BS"?

To me, as an agnostic, what's happened isn't people at DU "posting about their beliefs" but rather you posting OP after OP attacking those who believe. In a number of these threads I've responded, asked questions, suggested readings (for instance, "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and "Moral Man, Immoral Society&quot to which you haven't bothered to respond. I understand, you have a solidly formed point of view about which you're not in the least open to discussion. Kinda reminds me of some Jesus freaks I know.

Really, you resemble nothing so much as the most avid, Bible-thumping evangelical blasting his message at every opportunity.

The Democratic Party, last time I checked, did not have a platform against belief. And very many--if not most--progressive Democratic heroes, from JFK to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to FDR to RFK to Jimmy Carter... the list goes on and on--were and are people of faith. As were Gandhi, and Malcolm X, and the Berrigan Brothers, and Cesar Chavez...

I've been critical of religion myself, but there's a difference between criticism and outright contempt, between assertion and flat out arrogance.

I get it: you wish for an end to all belief and all religion. Just as others wish to convert everyone to their particular version of the True Faith.

Personally I find both extremes obnoxious, as, evidently, do the plurality of people answering this poll.

Do you really mean to drive progressive Democrats who are believers off this discussion board? If that's your objective, well, mission accomplished, as several frequent posters have now said they're leaving because of the climate you have had such a large hand in fostering.

What is it you're trying to demonstrate, aside from your own vastly superior intellect?

It certainly ain't love and peace, that's for sure. I can't see how this helps progressive Democrats move an inch forward on our various agendas.

This post may be hidden, but there it is. I think it had to be said.