Why do people believe in God?

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23. I agree with you. It is not possible for anyone

with a religious faith to have a discussion on DU without being trolled. There might as well not be a religion forum because it gets trolled constantly.

The atheist forum is a haven for atheists that has zero tolerance for people of any faith to discuss religious beliefs there. I can understand that, too. They don't want people proselytizing. They have their position on religion and don't want their forum trolled by people making religious belief comments to them. They are free there to ridicule religion and people who follow one. Anyone who would respond there with a pro religion position gets booted out.

Atheists can read something on the religion forum that they think is bonkers and go back to their own forum to laugh and criticize it. Instead, they barge into the religion forum to do that and nobody stops them.

I have not seen any purpose guidelines in the religion forum that would make it a haven for people of faith to discuss religion without being trolled or harassed by people who dislike or oppose religion. Try to have a serious discussion about any tenet of any religion and someone will derail it with direct ridicule or with fake questions about it in order to express their view that it's nonsense.

Since RW politicians have taken over some religions, I criticize those RW religious positions. Since DU is a left wing message board group, that is in keeping with the DU purpose of supporting the Democratic Party' as a left wing political organization. There are several thousand religious people in the US and elsewhere whose political views align with liberalism and the Democratic Party. Some of them are Dem Party leaders and elected officials, like Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, Nancy Pelosi, and several more.

But, despite those stellar leaders of our party who practice religious beliefs, opponents of religion on DU have made religion a litmus test of acceptability or lack of it here. I sometimes wonder how they reconcile their mantra of religious people being weak minded, superstitious, and lacking in critical reasoning skills with their praise of Biden's expertise and knowledge of foreign affairs, ability to negotiate both foreign and domestic policies, and clear thinking, sharp witted mind.

So, in reality, DU does not have a place for religious people to have troll free discussions of their beliefs. If you just accept that as a regular feature of DU, you can ignore the anti religion trolls. At least DU makes that possible with its ignore option.