Religion

That was enough. Now, I don't know if he remembered using that word, but I remembered it appearing in posts, and was in that thread, too.

It's troublesome to me, for reasons I won't elaborate on. There's a pattern here of people attempting to demonize non-believers that has been going on since I joined DU in 2008. I stopped visiting this group for quite some time, but finally decided to return, because the topic of religion is one that interests me.

Oddly enough, this group would probably get no traffic at all if it were not for some people who are interested in religion, but do not believe that deities exist. It would probably be like some of the other groups under the religion topic. So, in some ways, those non-believers are actually part of why the group is the busiest group on DU, by a large margin.

On the other hand, our presence tends to perpetuate some negative aspects of discussions of religion. There always seems to be someone or a few who cannot stand the fact that some people do not and cannot believe in supernatural entities and phenomena. They have to inject an insulting tone into every discussion, which is too bad, I think.

Anyway, the real "deceiver" is not a non-existent supernatural entity, I think. It is, instead, a term that describes those who insist that their beliefs are true because they believe and who are compelled to enter any conversation that argues against that, even if briefly and with single sentence replies.

It's too bad.