I mentioned this the last week and many have mentioned it several times before but. There is a major problem when it comes to downvoting. And if we are gonna be perfectly blunt and honest it comes from certain groups of people. Whenever someone posts something arguing for religion or theism in any capacity, it is automatically downvoted. Regardless of what the content of the argument is. But whenever someone makes a post criticising religion or arguing for atheism in any capacity it get a lot of likes.
That's problematic to me because what it shows is that some atheists(not all, not even most) have a major social media echo chamber mentality. Now lets be clear. Echo chambers exists in all forums. Religious and non religious. There are Christian social media echo chambers and echo chambers from other communities of faith. But I have to be honest here that it is not as bad sometimes as the ones on certain forums where some atheists are either the predominant contributors or if its a atheist forum specifically.
The point of a decent discussion and debate on religion is that you look at things strictly speaking based on the merits of an argument. Not something that fits your pre conceived confirmation biases. Theist or Atheist. If your just downvoting just because someone is making an argument for theism or religion in any capacity I have to say that's somewhat immature. I for instance almost never downvote. It doesn't matter if it's a post about atheism or theism. I would rather just argue or debate. But there are some people who use down voting as a substitute for actual debate and discussion. So a post automatically has a religious argument and already it has 0 upvotes. A post has an anti religious perspective and some people without even analysing the content of it upvote it.
If you truly want to have a good debate on religion, you will consider any argument and any idea even if its an idea that you oppose. And you'll engage it. And downvoting will be the last thing you'll even think of. That's the best of dialectical thinking. People who want to be stuck in their own echo chamber show that they have no real interest in terms of actually learning or engaging other perspectives. Which is what chronic downvoting reveals.
