Why is religion such a touchy subject?

[HORUS]

My threads keep getting locked and one explanation I get is that people get upset over religion. Why do they? What makes my opinion that God doesn't exist so touchy?

 

I could be making tons of subjects about how I think a libertarian socialist government would be prime, but I don't because politics doesn't have an emotional factor like religion.

 

One mention of my faithless views and people baww, but mentioning my political standpoint would generate very little.

 

Why do we consider religion a taboo subject?

 

 

 

This isn't an anti-religious thread. There is to be no religion-bashing (or atheist-bashing for that matter) in this thread, despite how much I would love to see it. I'm just trying to get everyone to think about this.

[Dark]

A majority of the people in this forum (and in the world) hate when someone questions their views, even if they know their views are flawed.

 

The way I see it, don't spread your intelligence to other people. Let them live life thinking a God exists.

[PrometheusMFD]

A majority of the people in this forum (and in the world) hate when someone questions their views' date=' even if they know their views are flawed.

 

The way I see it, don't spread your intelligence to other people. Let them live life thinking a God exists.

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And the way I see it, the side that does believe in God (ie, Me) tend to get offended when people (ie You) refer to it (no matter how subtly) as a "stupid idea" (ie what I just quoted)

[Flame Dragon]

People love their religion and it is a part of them and most people view insults to their religion as an insult to themselves.

 

That and the threads were becoming spammy and I wanted to aviod flamming/trolling/etc.

[Akira]

Because healthy debate is too intense for this forum.

[Dark]

People love their religion and it is a part of them and most people view insults to their religion as an insult to themselves.

 

That and the threads were becoming spammy and I wanted to aviod flamming/trolling/etc.

 

And we have some real hard-core trolls on this forum.

 

I don't see why people should get offended if all we do is question their views. It's not like we are burning a Bible in front of their faces' date=' or mass-killing preists.

 

Because the truth hurts, and foolish imbeciles prefer to live in moronic ignorance.

 

Also this.

[Akira]

 

Because the truth hurts' date=' and foolish imbeciles prefer to live in moronic ignorance.

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Also this.

 

What? I never mentioned such a thing!

[HORUS]

The way I see it' date=' don't spread your intelligence to other people. Let them live life thinking a God exists.

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Religion's destroyed too many lives (even those of well-educated people) for me to just let religious people go on indoctrinating their children.

 

Let's keep this on topic though.

 

 

A majority of the people in this forum (and in the world) hate when someone questions their views' date=' even if they know their views are flawed.[/quote']

 

Thing is though, I get my topics locked by Icy because they're religiously based so people will BAWW, while my old political threads never got any mod attention. There must be something about religion that makes it touchy.

 

People love their religion and it is a part of them and most people view insults to their religion as an insult to themselves.

 

So are my political beliefs but I don't get offended when someone tells me that more censorship is necessary.

[PrometheusMFD]

People love their religion and it is a part of them and most people view insults to their religion as an insult to themselves.

 

That and the threads were becoming spammy and I wanted to aviod flamming/trolling/etc.

 

And we have some real hard-core trolls on this forum.

 

I don't see why people should get offended if all we do is question their views. It's not like we are burning a Bible in front of their faces' date=' or mass-killing preists.

 

Because the truth hurts, and foolish imbeciles prefer to live in moronic ignorance.

 

Also this.

 

Fine, I'm all about intelligent debate about how the world really works. But there are those (on both sides, mind you) that take it way too far from the beginning and do nothing but insult those of differing belief.

Just in the few posts in this thread, there have been two insults geared towards religion.

[Guest JoshIcy]

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Surely, you must know what this is Kramer. And this symbol alone, defines your answer.[/align]

[Flame Dragon]

People love their religion and it is a part of them and most people view insults to their religion as an insult to themselves.

 

That and the threads were becoming spammy and I wanted to aviod flamming/trolling/etc.

 

And we have some real hard-core trolls on this forum.

 

I don't see why people should get offended if all we do is question their views. It's not like we are burning a Bible in front of their faces' date=' or mass-killing preists.

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Trolling is trolling. I'll allow it to some extent but if I don't see a thread becoming anything more then that I'm going to lock it because it serves no point to leave that open.

 

I don't know why either. My best guess is what I posted in the above.

[Prada]

Personally, I don't care if you think God exists or not. I just don't like it when people stereotype, flame, and attack other people because of their opinion. I personally believe in God. I would just rather not be attacked for it.

 

Religion is a touchy subject because people just get idiotic when they see someone defy what they believe in. Really sad, to be honest.

 

Horus, you're a smart dude. I don't agree with what you say, but you are a smart guy. xD

[HORUS]

Icy, I've never seen that before.

[Guest JoshIcy]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

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Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

[Dark]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

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Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

 

I've not seen it prior to you posting it, so an explanation is in order.

 

And my family is not atheist, so I would be exposed to less of this crap. In fact, none of my friends are atheist. In fact, I don't remember when/how/why I turned into an atheist.

[HORUS]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

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Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

 

Looked into the properties on the image and apparently its the invisible pink unicorn. So I looked it up and apparently its the symbol for Atheism. But what's the correlation between an atheist symbol and the reason why people are touchy about religion?

[Felix Culpa]

"Never talk about religion or money"

[Guest JoshIcy]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

[/quote']

 

Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

 

Looked into the properties on the image and apparently its the invisible pink unicorn. So I looked it up and apparently its the symbol for Atheism. But what's the correlation between an atheist symbol and the reason why people are touchy about religion?

 

Is god provable? No.

Is god disprovable? No.

Is the an Invisible Pink Unicorn provable? No.

Is an Invisible Pink Unicorn disprovable? No.

 

Which is the least offensive to talk about? Obviously the Unicorn.

So thus, it becomes a sort of medium to talk about such subjects, without potentially offending anyone in the process by conflicting with their beliefs. You use it, as a tool, to help understand such beings or beliefs. Because you cannot expect to counter act any sort of emotional distortion/offense from happening. So you instead use something like the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

[PrometheusMFD]

"Never talk about religion or money"

 

That policy won't get you very far...

[Dark]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

[/quote']

 

Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

 

Looked into the properties on the image and apparently its the invisible pink unicorn. So I looked it up and apparently its the symbol for Atheism. But what's the correlation between an atheist symbol and the reason why people are touchy about religion?

 

Is god provable? No.

Is god disprovable? No.

Is the an Invisible Pink Unicorn provable? No.

Is an Invisible Pink Unicorn disprovable? No.

 

Which is the least offensive to talk about? Obviously the Unicorn.

So thus, it becomes a sort of medium to talk about such subjects, without potentially offending anyone in the process by conflicting with their beliefs. You use it, as a tool, to help understand such beings or beliefs. Because you cannot expect to counter act any sort of emotional distortion/offense from happening. So you instead use something like the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

 

But somewhere out there, people will rant and flame others for saying that the Unicorn does not exist.

[HORUS]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

[/quote']

 

Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

 

Looked into the properties on the image and apparently its the invisible pink unicorn. So I looked it up and apparently its the symbol for Atheism. But what's the correlation between an atheist symbol and the reason why people are touchy about religion?

 

Is god provable? No.

Is god disprovable? No.

Is the an Invisible Pink Unicorn provable? No.

Is an Invisible Pink Unicorn disprovable? No.

 

Which is the least offensive to talk about? Obviously the Unicorn.

So thus, it becomes a sort of medium to talk about such subjects, without potentially offending anyone in the process by conflicting with their beliefs. You use it, as a tool, to help understand such beings or beliefs. Because you cannot expect to counter act any sort of emotional distortion/offense from happening. So you instead use something like the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

 

But why is the IPU less offensive than God?

 

And that still doesn't answer why people are offended if I question their god.

[Guest JoshIcy]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

[/quote']

 

Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

 

Looked into the properties on the image and apparently its the invisible pink unicorn. So I looked it up and apparently its the symbol for Atheism. But what's the correlation between an atheist symbol and the reason why people are touchy about religion?

 

Is god provable? No.

Is god disprovable? No.

Is the an Invisible Pink Unicorn provable? No.

Is an Invisible Pink Unicorn disprovable? No.

 

Which is the least offensive to talk about? Obviously the Unicorn.

So thus, it becomes a sort of medium to talk about such subjects, without potentially offending anyone in the process by conflicting with their beliefs. You use it, as a tool, to help understand such beings or beliefs. Because you cannot expect to counter act any sort of emotional distortion/offense from happening. So you instead use something like the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

 

But somewhere out there, people will rant and flame others for saying that the Unicorn does not exist.

 

Those are the people who can't debate.

 

@HORUS: There is no finite answer so such a thing. So it's best to find a catalyst like the IPU I mentioned.

[HORUS]

I'd rather go straight to the point than use a faux god as an example.

[Dark]

Icy' date=' I've never seen that before.

[/quote']

 

Honestly? You're an atheist, and you claim your family is? And you've NEVER seen it before?

 

Looked into the properties on the image and apparently its the invisible pink unicorn. So I looked it up and apparently its the symbol for Atheism. But what's the correlation between an atheist symbol and the reason why people are touchy about religion?

 

Is god provable? No.

Is god disprovable? No.

Is the an Invisible Pink Unicorn provable? No.

Is an Invisible Pink Unicorn disprovable? No.

 

Which is the least offensive to talk about? Obviously the Unicorn.

So thus, it becomes a sort of medium to talk about such subjects, without potentially offending anyone in the process by conflicting with their beliefs. You use it, as a tool, to help understand such beings or beliefs. Because you cannot expect to counter act any sort of emotional distortion/offense from happening. So you instead use something like the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

 

But somewhere out there, people will rant and flame others for saying that the Unicorn does not exist.

 

Those are the people who can't debate.

 

@HORUS: There is no finite answer so such a thing. So it's best to find a catalyst like the IPU I mentioned.

 

Isn't that what YCM is doing? Ranting and flaming because we say God doesn't exist?

 

Why should God be any different from the Unicorn? Both are beliefs, and both are being questioned.

[Akira]

Unicorn is less offensive in general because most people don't idolize invisible pink unicorns, despite them being comparable to the idea of a god in this circumstance.