On 04/17/2017 03:23 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Paul Rubin writes:
Rurpy writes:
A couple weeks ago a frequent poster here (Steve D'Aprano)
called another participant an "ugly american"
Oh stop trolling.
Paul, that is uncalled for. The charge of bigotry is not to be lightly
dismissed, and we do want to foster an environment here where people
will feel welcome.
You mean all the non-religious people?
Because some of your signatures don't feel welcoming to people of faith:
\ “I think Western civilization is more enlightened precisely |
`\ because we have learned how to ignore our religious leaders.” |
_o__) —Bill Maher, 2003 |
\ “Science shows that belief in God is not only obsolete. It is |
`\ also incoherent.” —Victor J. Stenger, 2001 |
_o__) |
\ ?Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a |
`\ religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.? |
_o__) ?Anonymous |
\ ?Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be |
`\ prayer and becomes correspondence.? ?Oscar Wilde, _The Epigrams |
_o__) of Oscar Wilde_, 1952 |
Steven, please try to be a little more attentive to people's delicate
feefees in the future. Rurpy, should that take care of it?
No, that doesn't do it. Taking care of people's feelings is an essential
part of keeping a community healthy and welcoming, and your belittling
does not help with that.
Neither do (a subset of) your signatures, yet you refuse to filter them out:
[from previous email]
So I will continue to treat all those topics equally: peripheral
comments on beliefs are just part of respectful human discourse, so long
as I'm respectful of the people who may hold such beliefs.
So you're okay with respectfully making people of faith feel unwelcome?
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