>I'll admit it was a rather terse comment fueled mostly by >being totally sick of the subject. It appears you interpret >all critical comments as insults.
No, the comment was not "critical." A critical comment would be constructive. Your comment, however, only served one purpose - to demean people of faith. >As there was nothing in that comment implying that I am an > atheist, Your comment that "religion is a crutch" quickly placed you in the company of atheists and atheist-leaning agnostics. I suppose that it is possible, though in my assessment - unlikely -, that you are a non-religious spiritualist... but as you said, you don't normally participate in these discussions, so I can't say for sure. If so, please accept my apology. Still, I stand by my previous point that there is a group of Brin-L'ers who have a distinct hostility to religion, and are in large part atheist. Moreover, these people have demonstrated a complete inability to discuss the topic of religion civilly, and instead only post various "zingers" and insults on this topic, without providing any constructive comment or examination of other viewpoints. In my mind, the collective sum of these actions from multiple posters are working directly contrary to the formation of the kind of Community that the majority of Brin-L wants this List to be. Lastly, it should be noted that zingers and insults in posts otherwise devoid of meaningful comment, from religious Brin-L'ers against atheist and non-religious Brin-Lers, is virtually unheard of here - which I find curious, to say the least. Its not like anyone has tried to make atheists feel unwelcome here the way some people have tried to make the religious feel unwelcome here. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
