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Thursday, Jul 10, 2008

OK, so in the past four hours there have been about five threads built upon anti-atheism of varying degrees.

SO I go to make a pro-atheism thread asking that atheists be left alone by our religious harassers. It gets locked in 10 minutes, the reply being "we dont need another thread"

I agree, another thread was not needed...about FOUR THREADS AGO!

So my question is this...was that fair? Was it fair to allow four or more anti-atheism threads, and zero pro-atheism threads?

It is clear that Gamespot mods have an agenda, and frankly this is the first time moderation has been offensive to me. I have had threads locked before, and I have been suspended, but this is the first time I think Gamespot made a mistake. In short, I feel every Gamespotian deserves equal representation.

PS: for anyone that did see my thread, I wrote "please, for the love of God, leave us atheists ALONE!" as a bit of sarcasm to lighten the mood. I realize sarcasm doesnt translate well through text, but for Christ's sake people wasn't it obvious I was joking? Or were you people that replied so quick to prove me wrong that you typed something before you actually thought about what I mean by it?

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wow, thats horribly lame. i'm an athiest, my parents tried to force christianity upon me, but that just turned me off even more. people have no right to speak against our lack - of - religion, just as we have no right to speak against there religion.
Posted Jul 10, 2008 9:04 pm PT
Your right, it's getting out of hand, think I'll start a thread right now.
Posted Jul 10, 2008 9:05 pm PT
I didn't see any of the kerfuffle because I don't usually visit off topic. But at some point the threads will be locked, and it was yours.

But it makes sense for gamespot, serving mostly USA, who are mostly religious, to be pro religious.
Posted Jul 11, 2008 12:45 am PT
Yeah, i'm an athiest, and it constantly irks me that religion is allowed to exert itself over people that have no interest in it - the US is pretty bad, but here in the UK our head of state is also the head of the Church of England, so religion is tied up wih the state whether we like it or not - we have bishops ('men' with funny hats and frocks snd strange sexual habits) helping decide on our laws. Thanks to Henry VIII, at least we're not Catholic though - i'm really not into being burnt on a stake - even in winter
Posted Jul 11, 2008 1:09 am PT
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26480179
Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted Jul 11, 2008 7:27 am PT
BT, i got an error on that link...
Posted Jul 11, 2008 7:32 am PT
I'm not an atheist (don't ask me what I am...), but I'm not especially fond of people who try to shove religion down people's throats. Belief or lack of belief is a personal opinion/stance/whatever that should be respected by everyone on this planet. Discussions about religion are okey in my book as long as people remember the whole tolerance thing they are preaching about. Anyway, I can understand that people want to spread the word and all that, but there is a difference between trying to convince someone in a civilized fashion and just being annoying and preachy.
Posted Jul 13, 2008 6:04 pm PT
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