Is NS becoming less tolerant of Religion?

[The Holy Therns]

No, NS is just a place where every political or spiritual group thinks the rest of the place is out to get them. A miniature society, in short.

[Benuty]

What's the consequence of not believing in a God?

Frees up your Sundays.

Not everyone cares about the day of the unconquerable sun deity.

[Mystral]

I think the internet is becoming less tolerant of religion. Seriously, I was called a dumbass in 9gag for defending the views of a former atheist.

[Rhodisia]

I really couldn't give a flying rat's ass about religion, as long as you don't try to force it on me.

[Dyakovo]

I think the internet is becoming less tolerant of religion. Seriously, I was called a dumbass in 9gag for defending the views of a former atheist.

Because that would never have happened before...

[Tekania]

I really couldn't give a flying rat's ass about religion, as long as you don't try to force it on me.

TBH, if I had a flying rat I would be demanding a pretty high price for giving up its ass.

[YellowApple]

I think the internet is becoming less tolerant of religion. Seriously, I was called a dumbass in 9gag for defending the views of a former atheist.

I think you were called a dumbass because you were on 9gag in the first place.

But yes, the World Wide Web does have a relatively-high concentration of atheism, probably because there's so much information available on the WWW disproving (or otherwise conflicting with and actually having explanations other than "it says so in $holy_book") a lot of theistic/spiritual explanations of how the universe works; with an abundance of resources like Wikipedia available for people to peruse and learn from regardless of national (in most cases), intellectual, or economic background, you're bound to end up with a large number of people who insist on believing explanations backed by observable evidence (especially if they're familiar with Wikipedia; suddenly, anything that doesn't have a citation next to it is immediately questionable), and the freeform nature of the WWW allows those people to be able to converse relatively-freely about their observations and beliefs.

Interestingly, also due to the freeform nature of the WWW, you also have a high concentration of fundamentalist whackjobs and religious extremists (often one and the same) using the WWW as a soapbox upon which they can stand and yell at people about their beliefs. This makes for some very entertaining drama when these two extremes collide with virtually zero middle ground, particularly since the middle ground (agnostics, non-devout members of religious faiths, less-extreme religious denominations, etc.) is pretty quiet in comparison.

[The United Districts of Wanderers]

The reason for such toleration of posts is outlined in freedom of speech. People who do not understand why we believe in God tend to put him down. While I was able to find people who were just inquisitive and not total put-downs, too many of the comments are negative towards religion. This is due to: A) The Prosperity Gospel preachers who have everything wrong, B) The fact that Marxism and Liberalism have dominated most public campuses, C) The terrorists in the Middle East, and D) The ineffectiveness of the people following the religion. It has been a long time since I have seen someone able to stand up to atheists and defend their religion (last time was in God's Not Dead.). These issues need to be fixed, or else religion is in very serious trouble.

[YellowApple]

It has been a long time since I have seen someone able to stand up to atheists and defend their religion

I reckon because doing so is pretty difficult if you believe in religious texts literally, since the information contained within them has since generally been obsolesced by new information obtained via observational evidence. However, by understanding the contexts in which such scriptures were written and why they were written the way they were, one can have a better understanding of the parts that actually matter - the parts about loving one's enemies (because it ultimately gives your enemies less reason to be enemies in the first place, thus being a better use of time and energy) and not killing people (because that's pretty mean) and such - as well as the parts that probably don't matter as much anymore or could use some clarification, like not eating pork (because if you don't cook it right you can get really really sick and die) or not sodomizing one another (because it doesn't help your population grow and therefore puts you at a disadvantage when your tribe is vastly outnumbered by the next one over).

Basically, even while I'm technically an atheist, I can still find use and value in scriptures because I'm no longer bound to them in a literal sense; instead, they become more like Aesop's works: fables and parables that were meant to teach important lessons on how one should live a prosperous life. Some of them aren't applicable anymore (for example, we now know how to cook pork properly and not die of food poisoning, and overpopulation has diminished the importance of sex being reproductive), while others very much are applicable (like not killing people or otherwise being a jerk, since that tends to just cause people to want to be mean to you in turn, like what's happening in the Middle East and elsewhere).

[Coreyea]

No, the majority of people here have always sucked.

[NATIONSTATESofficial]

I work for Max Barry and no we are not.

[Stormwind-City]

I work for Max Barry and no we are not.

Err, wat.

[Immoren]

I work for Max Barry and no we are not.

Err, wat.

Seems legit and trustworthy source.

[Benuty]

Err, wat.

Seems legit and trustworthy source.

I met a man on the road who told me to invest in lizard egg stocks because lizards are becoming even more popular in the US.

It seemed legit .

[YellowApple]

Err, wat.

Seems legit and trustworthy source.

It's on the Internet so it must be true, right?

Seems legit and trustworthy source.

I met a man on the road who told me to invest in lizard egg stocks because lizards are becoming even more popular in the US.

It seemed legit .

Are you telling me my safe deposit box full of lizard eggs wasn't a sound investment strategy after all?

[Immoren]

Seems legit and trustworthy source.

I met a man on the road who told me to invest in lizard egg stocks because lizards are becoming even more popular in the US.

It seemed legit .

Men on the road are always reliable. *nods*

Seems legit and trustworthy source.

It's on the Internet so it must be true, right?

Yes.
Everything on Internet, TV, Radio or newspaper must always be true.

[YellowApple]

It's on the Internet so it must be true, right?

Yes.
Everything on Internet, TV, Radio or newspaper must always be true.

Checkmate, atheists!

[The Latin Commonwealth]

It seems that the world and society as a whole is becoming less tolerant of religion.
I'm not saying you ( or anyone I don't know who is religious ) deserve it,but access to information makes more people know unfair situations driven by religion,from discrimination to homosexuals to stonings of women.

[Lydenburg]

I don't think it is just a NationStates thing. I think the world in general is becoming less tolerant of religion.

Or at least the specific age and culture group most widely represented on NS.

[Lydenburg]

Seems legit and trustworthy source.

I met a man on the road who told me to invest in lizard egg stocks because lizards are becoming even more popular in the US.

It seemed legit .

I met a Zimbabwean beggar on the road who told me that his cow was arrested for criticising Mugabe.

That one is becoming increasingly popular, but I believed him.

[Immoren]

I met a man on the road who told me to invest in lizard egg stocks because lizards are becoming even more popular in the US.

It seemed legit .

I met a Zimbabwean beggar on the road who told me that his cow was arrested for criticising Mugabe.

That one is becoming increasingly popular, but I believed him.

I read "cow" as "crow" at first.
Propably would've been more stranger that way.

[Reploid Productions]

I work for Max Barry and no we are not.

Adorable.


~Evil Forum Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~She who wields the Banhammer; master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku

[Corrian]

The reason for such toleration of posts is outlined in freedom of speech. People who do not understand why we believe in God tend to put him down. While I was able to find people who were just inquisitive and not total put-downs, too many of the comments are negative towards religion. This is due to: A) The Prosperity Gospel preachers who have everything wrong, B) The fact that Marxism and Liberalism have dominated most public campuses, C) The terrorists in the Middle East, and D) The ineffectiveness of the people following the religion. It has been a long time since I have seen someone able to stand up to atheists and defend their religion (last time was in God's Not Dead.). These issues need to be fixed, or else religion is in very serious trouble.

Before non-believers were in serious trouble. Now we say that religion is (Which it is still majority believed in, so it doesn't sound like it is in much trouble right now...). My opinion on the matter is times change, and if that is a good thing or not, eh, whatever. Not just because I'm an Atheist myself, I am curious to see what a world without so much religious influence would be like. Personally, I think it would be a better world, but I'm more just curious than anything. Just like I am curious about seeing the world stuck in a serious climate change cycle. I get curios about extreme changes.

[Tekania]

I work for Max Barry and no we are not.

Adorable.


~Evil Forum Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~She who wields the Banhammer; master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku

For some reason I have this image in my mind which is like a mesh of The Governor from The Walking Dead and The Architect from the Matrix, as you in this white sterile room surrounded by fish tanks filled with the severed heads of countless DEATs.

[Pagan Hungary]

Felt like it's often been like that for the forums of NS and many places on the internet, nothing can be done about it and there's nothing necessarily wrong about it; just people with their own opinions.