Ah Yes the Friendly Atheist
As I write and blog on such matters Facebook is constantly sending me recommendations for ‘discussion sites’ on the general subject of Atheism and Theism. Some of these are Christian sites but most of them are not. One thing I have noted about both categories is that they are not, in fact, what they claim to be. By this I mean that they have ZERO to do with discussion. The Christian ones are safe spaces where people will not be laughed at for conspiratorial thinking. The secular ones are safe spaces for people to vent their feelings about their miserable upbringings or compete for likes or laughing emoticons in the never ending quest for the next ‘dunk’ or ‘mic drop’. One discovers this when one injects a comment that does not conform to the c...