I come to Raving Atheists for the atheist spunkiness, and the humour here.
The rampant theistic trolling leaves me cold, though I do really enjoy the micky-taking of it, especially by Kate!
Now, I was idly looking at the main forums page, and wondering why theism is splattered
all over the Raving Atheist Forums, both as "witness" and as a subject of atheistic discussion. It's crazy, 'cause as an atheist, I'd like a bit of space that is free of it! It's crazy that it is everywhere! It's called the Raving Atheists, so I wonder why it's theism
everywhere here?
I am a cause-and-effect kinda guy.
One thing leads to another.
So what's the cause here?
I realised, looking at the forum main page, that there is not actually a forum for discussing theism!
That's why it is all over the place, because it does not have an actual home here! Look at the main page. It's main sections are
ATHEISM and
GENERAL/OTHER DISCUSSION. There's
no main section
ABOUT THEISM! (which we
do want to post about here, but, if you're like me, you don't want it
everywhere!)
The ATHEIST VS THEIST, and ATHEIST/THEIST MORALITY and DOES GOD EXIST? are the
only forums assigned for discussing theism here. But two are for discussing a very specific aspect of theism and atheism, and the other is, ... what is it?,
a fight forum? Whatever, there is no forum for atheists to place their posts about theism generally. And *THAT* is why theism is discussed everywhere here. It doesn't fit
anywhere, so it goes
everywhere.
And this realisation generates an idea:
We could have a
CRAZINESS section within which we could have a forum on THEISM, and another on OTHER CRAZINESS. We can move ATHEIST VS THEIST, and DOES GOD EXIST? to the
CRAZINESS section. (ATHEIST/THEIST MORALITY is tricky to place. We might change its name to THEIST MORALITY and put in the
CRAZINESS section - and perhaps have and have a new ATHEIST MORALITY in the
ATHEISM section.)
This idea of having a forum for THEISM in a section for
CRAZINESS is to help stop us having theism
everywhere. It comes down to this: if we want to make a new topic on some new theidiocy, as we so often do, where do we place it? For many topics, we might as well throw dice at the moment!
Is this a crazy idea, or a neat idea? What do you think, people?