I've read through a lot, but not all posts in here, and have come to a conclusion.
The TFP may well contain posts that may boil down to simple attacks on Christianity, no doubt. However, the TFP most likely does not contain posts that are personal attacks on other members for being Christian. That makes a pretty important difference in how welcoming the place is considered to be.
Any person that takes "attacks" on their faith as personal attacks is going to feel not welcome. I think we strive to guide the members we do have from "attack" style posts to more reasonable discussion of why they don't believe a certain thing. Be it any religion or creed they disagree with. That's what we do here. We discuss things. Any poster who makes blanket statements, of any kind, in any serious discussion here gets every flaw to that statement pointed out by fellow members.
You don't get, at the TFP, "You're an idiot for being a "NAME RELIGION HERE."
You might get "All people who are "NAME RELIGION HERE" are idiots."
I guarantee that first post would get you warned by a mod, and the second one would have several other member's comments dissmissing it as the show of ignorance it is.
That's how I figure we're a more welcoming place than most of the world.
I stand by that assessment.
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I can sum up the clash of religion in one sentence:
"My Invisible Friend is better than your Invisible Friend."
Last edited by billege; 02-24-2006 at 07:50 PM..
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