Well that's three. Three to go.

[el_bryanto]

But to clarify something - I know that some people in that other room like to pretend that my antipathy towards certain posters who showed up here is due to a generalized hatred of atheists. That is not accurate - I hate those people not because they are atheists but because of how they act. Those individuals are nasty, mean-spirited people, and to imagine that they came here for any other reason than to disrupt is silly.

I did overreact and I should not have done that, though.

But those people I would find objectionable even if they were religious or even if they were of my own faith - granted, being attacked feels differently than watching someone else get attacked, but I would still find it offensive.

The problem is that for a significant percentage of that other room being a good atheist requires attacking believers - and looking at it from their point of view it's easy enough to understand why. But you can't come into a room built on mutual respect for various belief systems when you are well known to have disdain for all views but you own and anticipate that will go well. I speeded up the process with my nastiness (which I shouldn't have done) but it would have happened anyway.

At any rate, that's that. I look forward to finding out on what grounds this post needs to be hidden.

Bryant