I'd like to see a list of Metafilter posts about potentially dangerous topics that led to respectful, interesting conversations.
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posted by roll truck roll
on Oct 2, 2011 -
81 comments
I would like to request that theological/religious threads (such as this
this one) be allowed to be a discussion on a specific religious topic (in this case, hell and the afterlife) and not be turned into a referendum on the nature of belief.
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posted by jb
on Mar 29, 2011 -
672 comments
Well, I have been onsite five or ten minutes and already flagged two posts...can I say I am sick and tired of seeing gratuitous and profane rants against God and Christianity in general-especially since I know for a fact that kind of speech is not tolerated for other groups here?
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posted by konolia
on Feb 17, 2008 -
656 comments
Come on y'all this is
embarassing. I don't think anyone would appreciate getting their religion bashed this way and Mormon's LOVE that man. Believe me, I know some. Totally uncalled for.
posted by empath
on Jan 28, 2008 -
210 comments
Fundamentalist Metafilterism? A few days ago, I had a
post deleted. I'm actually
not complaining about that
(hey! don't jump on me! I'm not! read this before yelling at me!), but that, combined with the
belovedness of
this post, made a question form in my head.
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posted by WCityMike
on Jan 15, 2008 -
45 comments
MetaFilter seems rife with religious intolerance and disinformation under the guise of intelligent conversation. Is this a flaw or a feature of Metafilter?
posted by JaySunSee
on Aug 6, 2007 -
250 comments
Can admins take a look at
this AskMeFi question? It's a genuine question about a biblical story but it's being hijacked by the atheist brigade.
posted by humblepigeon
on Jun 13, 2007 -
80 comments
MetaFilter discussions about religion and politics tend to have comments which are basically the same as other MetaFilter discussions about religion and politics.
posted by Bugbread
on May 7, 2007 -
89 comments
I don't understand why
this was posted. Most LOL XTIANS get deleted; why is this one still here?
posted by Methylviolet
on Apr 4, 2007 -
79 comments
Kudos where richly due. I'm delighted to see
a thread I had actually feared would be deleted, about the sensitive nexus of fundamentalist Christianity and earthly power, close in on 100 comments and never once descend into vituperation. Nuanced disagreement, even principled difference of opinion, but no name-calling and no shit-flinging. It's a wonderful thing. Can we do this more often?
posted by adamgreenfield
on Jan 9, 2007 -
39 comments
Well,
askme got served with a doozy tonight and I think it's safe to say it didn't go well. It's not just the completely awful legal advice being dispensed, or the attempt to frame this question as a solely moral one that disturbed me, but the seeming justification of murder (and referencing religion to reason away that murder) that made me shudder.
posted by incessant
on Oct 20, 2006 -
186 comments
Regarding the question on ask.metafilter:
Religious oppression, any question that would ask for perceived incidents of "personal oppression" from a segment of the population is subtle hatemongering with the intention of inciting contention and propagating slander, libel and misinformation. This thread is dangerous and should be removed immediately.
posted by rinkjustice at 6:41 AM PST on July 22 [+fave] [!]
posted by rinkjustice
on Jul 22, 2006 -
134 comments
I call censorship by the religious majority
posted by cbrody
on Dec 11, 2005 -
208 comments
There has been a number of religion oriented threads recently. In these threads it becomes apparent that, compared to the population at large, Metafilter has a higher frequency of non-believers. Inspired by
this thread* at another website, what brought you to non-belief?
* it starts a little shallow, but more indepth stories come eventually
posted by jsonic
on Nov 25, 2005 -
346 comments
In the same way we want to avoid people's pet theories on pornography invading threads on pubic shaving (old gray/green thread, wish I could remember the URLs), I wish Metafilter's multitude of strident atheists would extend the courtesy of keeping their unhelpful but oh-so-clever snarks [
6,
6,
6] out of otherwise cogent discussions on scriptural mythos. We can talk about these things objectively without being vilified as damn fundies, right? Thanks, and Happy Easter.
posted by brownpau
on Mar 28, 2005 -
150 comments
Sheesh. Forgetting the fact that
this is a crap FPP, do we have to have this stupid argument again? I get really tired of reading the uninformed, bigoted opinions of anti-religion types with chips on their shoulders. You are free to not believe in God; I am not bothered by your not-believing. But you not-believing is not evidence of intellectual or moral superiority. It's just a choice you made, a choice I can understand and respect. How about some reciprocation already?
posted by eustacescrubb
on Sep 24, 2004 -
171 comments
It's all well and good for
skallas to post his opinions on his own weblog, but couldn't he keep any anti-religious remarks out of his
FPPs?
posted by VulcanMike
on Feb 27, 2004 -
255 comments
If people are going to ask religious questions, does Matt apply doctrinal arguments in adjudging what is an acceptable answer or not? [MI]
posted by biffa
on Jan 30, 2004 -
26 comments
What was wrong with the godly feeling thread that was on Ask Mefi? As an atheist, I thought the discussion, for the most part, was civilized and was more about people trying to come to terms with a certain consciousness. That an innocuous thread asking others to elucidate about an indescribable feeling, rather than inviting obdurate fundamentalism, is a pity. I thought Ask MeFi was about disseminating answers and people inferring their own individual understandings from the results. Explain.
posted by ed
on Dec 23, 2003 -
108 comments
