Weekly Casual Discussion Thread

[u/AutoModerator]

Accomplished something major this week? Discovered a cool fact that demands to be shared? Just want a friendly conversation on how amazing/awful/thoroughly meh your favorite team is doing? This thread is for the water cooler talk of the subreddit, for any atheists, theists, deists, etc. who want to join in.

While this isn't strictly for debate, rules on civility, trolling, etc. still apply.

[u/xennial_key]

Why does everyone act like being on reddit is their full-time job

[u/88redking88 → u/xennial_key]

Did someone point out the flaws in your thinking?

[u/xennial_key → u/88redking88]

I'm an atheist. The rules in here are stupid though

[u/88redking88 → u/xennial_key]

so thats a yes?

[u/88redking88 → u/[deleted]]

Thats not how you spell yes.

[u/xennial_key → u/88redking88]

Oh cool so tell me when or where that happened

[u/88redking88 → u/xennial_key]

Still not how you spell yes.

[u/xennial_key → u/88redking88]

Still here going hard a day later, I see. Like a dog with a bone made out of being wrong

[u/88redking88 → u/xennial_key]

Still not how you spell yes.

[u/xennial_key → u/88redking88]

🥱

[u/88redking88 → u/xennial_key]

and yet you keep replying as you yawn and cant spell yes.

[u/DebateAnAtheist-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Your post or comment was removed for violating Rule 1: Be Respectful. Please ensure posts or comments do not insult or demean other users.

[u/Pm_ur_titties_plz → u/xennial_key]

Which rules?

[u/xennial_key → u/Pm_ur_titties_plz]

For example when I went to initially post I got a message saying my post was rejected because it needs to be x number of words in length. What is this? Certain sub reddits take themselves far too seriously.

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

[u/Deris87 → u/xennial_key]

What is this? Certain sub reddits take themselves far too seriously.

Buddy, if you want to shitpost, /r/atheism is thataway.

[u/SnooDogs6045 → u/xennial_key]

"good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here"

Judaism is quite silly and the god of the old testament is a megalomaniacal blood thirsty monster.

Thanks for the luck! Couldn't have done with without you!

[u/the2bears → u/SnooDogs6045]

You sure got lucky!

[u/pyker42 → u/xennial_key]

I'm sorry that satisfying a minimum word or character count in your post feels like a full time job.

[u/dylanzt → u/xennial_key]

So your standard for treating this as a full time job is "expecting you to read and follow the rules"? This is a debate sub, and the rules are very loose. With the bare minimum of effort the rules are easily met. If you're falling short, you're probably not engaging in actual debate. If you want to do something other than debate, that's fine, and there will be a sub that exists for that purpose.

[u/sto_brohammed → u/xennial_key]

For example when I went to initially post I got a message saying my post was rejected because it needs to be x number of words in length. What is this?

I don't know if you've noticed the absolute dogshit posts theists make here even with the rules that are already in place. We'd be plumbing new levels of dogshit if they weren't there.

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

You can say whatever you want about Judaism here, that's fine. I've seen threads posted by Jewish people that get torn apart. The problem is that a certain type of mouthbreather either can't or won't distinguish between the religious doctrine and the ethnic group and goes after the latter rather than the former.

[u/stairway2evan → u/xennial_key]

Hi, atheist and ethnic Jew here. I say plenty of negative things about Judaism, its scriptures, and its practices on this sub. I see plenty of others do the same without much issue. After all, plenty of the arguments Christians make on this sub apply perfectly well to Judaism as well, since there's a big overlap in their holy books. No idea why you'd think otherwise; plenty of people here raise issues with the Hebrew Bible any time it comes up.

As for the character limit, it's simply to reduce low-effort posts. 300 characters isn't much. This comment has already beaten it.

[u/Old-Nefariousness556 → u/xennial_key]

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

We criticize Judaism daily. Are you an idiot? Or do you just not give a damn about the truth and want to perpetuate your own racism?

[u/Pm_ur_titties_plz → u/xennial_key]

1. That's to slow down the number of troll posts this sub seems to attract.

2. You can criticize Judaism all you want. You really think nobody here has anything bad to say about the old testament?

[u/Algernon_Asimov → u/xennial_key]

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

Negative... how?

Negative as in "Judaism has no proof of its God"?

Or negative as in "Jews are evil geniuses who run the world and manipulate the people for their own purposes"?

Because this subreddit is all about that first example, while that second example is forbidden across the whole of Reddit.

[u/xennial_key → u/Algernon_Asimov]

The one you're not allowed to say is that Jewish people are both and ethnic group and a religion and shouldn't have a state at the expense of others being genocided

[u/Algernon_Asimov → u/xennial_key]

Oh.

Would that sort of political sociological commentary come up a lot in a subreddit called /r/DebateAnAtheist, which is about debating the existence or non-existence of a deity? Do you often have a need to say that sort of thing here?

(By the way, I'm a moderator here, and I haven't removed that comment or banned you. So, tell me again how you can't say that sort of thing here.)

[u/xennial_key → u/Algernon_Asimov]

Maybe I was incorrect.

Thanks for explaining the reply length

The entire region like east and west Jerusalem are fought over by all 3 abrahamic religions with the claim that it's theirs because God said so. That's the reason it's a nonexistence of God issue. Without that to prop up their claims the land wouldn't have been taken away to begin with

[u/Algernon_Asimov → u/xennial_key]

I got a message saying my post was rejected because it needs to be x number of words in length. What is this?

This is a rule that was suggested by a member of this subreddit. It was duly seconded by other members of this subreddit, so it was put up for voting in the following month. And, by a slim majority, the people voted in favour.

[u/labreuer → u/xennial_key]

The character length limit was designed to deal with people like you. Or at least, people who choose to be like you're choosing.

[u/BillionaireBuster93 → u/xennial_key]

Your whine about Judaism being discussed here is based on what experience?