[Suggestion] Combine Religion Threads
 

For a board full of self-avowed atheists we've got about 400 threads on Jesus and Abortion rights.

Could we possibly combine them? I'd like to hit everyone at once when i call atheists intellectually-lazy ****s.

Sincerely,
The Biggest of all 3's

So basically you want them combined because you're lazy. Irony alert! :laughing:

I don't see any reason to unless they're on the same specific topic. Religion is way too broad a subject to keep to one thread.

I can't see what overlap there is between "Do Atheists Believe in Jesus" and "What is your level of observance?"

There probably are a few that could conceivably be merged, if the kind of conversation going on in there is almost identical, but none come to mind at the moment.

I would suggest we do the same for the number of vegetarian themed threads that we have on here...

Like these for example?

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/47...ly-murder.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/34...getarians.html

Can I be Budwish or should I be Islamcca?

:laughing:

All I know is I want to be Shindu.

When you say "combine" do mean combine them into one sub-sub-forum [Music Banter > Community Center > The Lounge>Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion>Religion] or combine them into one mega-thread?

I think the former is a better idea if one is only curious about one specific question or topic one want to discuss it is there neatly tucked away in its own thread. The drawn back to having one mega-thread on Religion is that there many people who like to read through a thread before posting and if all religious and God topics were in one mega-thread than that person would have to read through 10,000 post before one posts her or his own thoughts - and another ill side effect of the mega-thread, it could also lead to multi-quotations.

He (probably jokingly) means combine them into one thread, and it's not going to happen if the original topics are not dissimilar enough.
But... I really don't know why people are taking this seriously. I may not know how Big3's mind works, but I'm pretty sure this thread is more of a statement than an actual request.

Why not stop there.
Lets get all the religious threads. political thread, philosophical threads, activism threads, sexual threads, drug threads merge them all into one and just call it the 'People Talking Shite' thread

Or we can merge them all into one forum and call it

Wait.

It is a music forum after all. A lot of us spend all our time in the lounge, which makes you wonder why we came in the first place.

This forum only needs two threads "music" and "off topic".

Exactly. For a forum full of people who doesn't believe in Jesus, I've never seen a group so ready to discuss him. There should be a thread called "tell me again today why you hate ignorant rednecks" becuase thats all we really ever discuss.

To paraphrase Right-Track: "You're an atheist, we get it, now **** off." I don't feel like I have a problem with anyone doing or saying anything, but I can't stand group-think and I smell too much of it here sometimes.

too long; didn't read: merge the threads.

Just to ask, how many of us as a percentage of the forum's users believe in God?
Because I don't think many do.

That doesn't mean that people aren't allowed to discuss their belief or non-belief in Jesus. I started a thread a few months ago asking if atheists believe that Jesus existed just as a person. There are many arguments in that thread FOR and AGAINST his physical existence, and many that actually question his divinity. He could have either been conjured up by early religious groups or have actually existed like any other historical figure, like Tutankhamen or Charlemagne. Religion and anything to do with it makes everybody jump at the opportunity to spew their opinion on it, atheist or not.

If you don't like the discussion that's happening, don't go to that part of the forum. It's really that simple.

I avoid a great deal of them.

You're an not atheist, we get it, now **** off. ;)

Here we are:


Although surely most of the debates in there are between people who disagree surely? You can't have a thread where the only people arguing support one idea.

Surely there must be some kind of counterbalance from the christians?

Meanwhile, this thread has turned into a religion-related discussion...

You did this you know.

:wavey:

Yeah thanks for that. You keep my brilliant humor FOR YOURSELF!

The elite among us still recognize your success at making a statement whose humor and irony is composed of the unwitting replies validating that statement in the very thread it was made.

You still win.

Internet irony oneupmanship is pretty rad yo.

I think we just need a sub-lounge for religious devotees. We could call it The Sanctuary and we could request that people tithe 10% of their income.

Nice idea, but most of the people debating on religion here hate it, apart from Big3 and myself.

i do

but mine is a Gnostic God

and I started a thread about neuroscience and God

i don't see how that should be merged with any other religious thread

I didn't know. Don't you fell that most other people here are atheists?
And if it's to do with neuroscience too, then I think there's a legitimate case for it not being merged.

yes, most people here are either atheists or agnostics

very few Deists