Comment on Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 22:05:42 GMT

The hipocrits here downvoting all of my comments, even those not related to this, simply does it as a punishment for my insolence, something they think they are entitled to because of their Tribal status as atheists, and my inferior status as a theist. I must admit I was originally expecting more of this community.

This is an example of the kind of thing that convinces me you're not here for genuine questioning. A person who is truly trying to doubt, and who specifically asked for others to raise questions of their own, would not call those other people hypocrites. And note that you're calling people hypocrites in response to, of all things, downvotes? All of this says to me that your primary attitude toward the people here is one of hostility. Ask yourself this: is hostility really the right way to respond to questioners whom you yourself asked to question your beliefs? Moreover, is it psychologically realistic that a person with genuine doubts would become so hostile toward his/her questioners at so slight a provocation? Maybe I'm misreading you here, but somehow, I doubt that's the case.

We're not the ones drawing the tribal lines here; you are. Maybe your original comment started out as a genuine request for discussion; I don't know. But somewhere along the line, that sincerity of doubt got lost, and this became another one of those tired, rehashed debates about Christianity versus atheism. You're on the "Christianity" side; we're on the "atheism" side. That's how you've labeled us in your mind: as enemies on a different side of a tribal war. Arguments become soldiers, any ground conceded whatsoever is viewed as some sort of "loss", and that's why you're so eager to accuse everyone here who disagrees with you of hypocrisy.

(Note: I have downvoted none of your comments myself, but I can understand why some others have been doing so. As MarkusRamikin pointed out, you've been doing surprisingly little to make your position arguable, either for or against, and the insults and accusations of "hypocrisy" you've been hurling at people really haven't been helping the matter. At any rate, a bit of advice: don't take karma all that seriously. People aren't downvoting due to some personal or tribal vendetta. Treat downvotes simply as slightly noisy signals of what LW users do not approve of, and would like to see less of in the future. As the age-old saying goes, "It's nothing personal.")

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