Do you really think it’s only a bit overstated? I mean, has anybody been banned for being religious? And has anybody here indicated that they hate Christians without immediately being called on falling into blue vs. green thinking?
Okay, ready to be shouted down. I’ll be counting the downvotes as they roll in, I guess. You guys really hate Christians, after all. (Am I actually allowed to be here or am I banned for my religion?) I’ll probably just leave soon anyway. Nothing good can come of this. I don’t know why I’m doing this. I shouldn’t be here; you don’t want me here, not to mention I probably shouldn’t bother talking to people who only want me to hate God. Why am I even here again? Seriously, why am I not just lurking? That would make more sense.
From her other posts, AspiringKnitter strikes me as being open-minded and quite intelligent, but that last paragraph really irks me. It’s self-debasing in an almost manipulative way—as if she actually wants us to talk to her like we “only want [her] to hate God” or as if we “really hate Christians”. Anybody who has spent any non-trivial amount of time on LW would know that we certainly don’t hate people we disagree with, at least to the best of my knowledge, so asserting that is not a charitable or reasonable expectation. Plus, it seems that it would now be hard(er) to downvote her because she specifically said she expects that, even given a legitimate reason to downvote.
Well, some of Eliezer’s posts about religion and religious thought have been more than a little harsh. (I couldn’t find it, but there was a post where he said something along the lines of “I have written about religion as the largest imaginable plague on thinking...”) They didn’t explicitly say that religious people are to be scorned, but it’s very easy to read in that implication, especially since many people who are equally vocal about religion being bad do hold that opinion.
Do you really think it’s only a bit overstated? I mean, has anybody been banned for being religious? And has anybody here indicated that they hate Christians without immediately being called on falling into blue vs. green thinking?
From her other posts, AspiringKnitter strikes me as being open-minded and quite intelligent, but that last paragraph really irks me. It’s self-debasing in an almost manipulative way—as if she actually wants us to talk to her like we “only want [her] to hate God” or as if we “really hate Christians”. Anybody who has spent any non-trivial amount of time on LW would know that we certainly don’t hate people we disagree with, at least to the best of my knowledge, so asserting that is not a charitable or reasonable expectation. Plus, it seems that it would now be hard(er) to downvote her because she specifically said she expects that, even given a legitimate reason to downvote.
I agree. See my other post deconstructing the troll-techniques used.
Well, some of Eliezer’s posts about religion and religious thought have been more than a little harsh. (I couldn’t find it, but there was a post where he said something along the lines of “I have written about religion as the largest imaginable plague on thinking...”) They didn’t explicitly say that religious people are to be scorned, but it’s very easy to read in that implication, especially since many people who are equally vocal about religion being bad do hold that opinion.
Banned? Not that I know of. But there have certainly been Christians who have been serially downvoted, perhaps more than they deserved.
“Hate” may be too strong a word, but the original poster’s meaning seems to lean closer to “openly intolerant”, which is true and partially justified.
EDIT: Looking back, the original poster was asking if they would be banned, not claiming so. So that doesn’t seem to be a valid criticism.