Chill with the downvotes, guys. Houshalter's new, looks to be participating well in other threads, and is just stating a belief for the first time.
Uh... thanks?
Houshalter, this is a tangent to the current... tangent. It might be better to discuss theism in its own Open Thread comment or within a past discussion on the topic.
I have debated my religion before, but ironically this looks like a bad place to make a stand because everyones against me and theres a karma system.
On a related note, have you looked through the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions sequence yet? Not to throw a short book's worth of stuff at you, but there's a lot of stuff taken for granted around here when discussing theism, the supernatural, and evidence for such.
D: GAHHH!!! D: Hundreds of links to pages that contain hundreds of more links. D:
I have debated my religion before, but ironically this looks like a bad place to make a stand because everyones against me and theres a karma system.
You're probably getting most downvotes because, as orthonormal said, you're going off a tangent to the current tangent, and with a somewhat adverserial stance.
To whom it may concern:
This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.
(After the critical success of part II, and the strong box office sales of part III in spite of mixed reviews, will part IV finally see the June Open Thread jump the shark?)