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Down with this sort of thing - Time to reclaim After Hours from Godstirring crap.

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  • #2
    Feathers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Feathers


    So you want a meta-religion thread instead? That'll help :rolleyes:


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Because it's Sunday, the god day! :pac:


  • #4
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Because it's Sunday, the god day! :pac:


    One of the threads was about Jews. :p


  • #5
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    Lapin wrote: »
    What is it with all the religion based threads around here lately ?

    Here's just some of today's crap.


    Why are most religious against homosexuality?

    Why do people hate Jews?

    A priest stands up the Vatican


    Why don't the God lovers and God haters have their troll fests on the religion forums and leave those of us who don't give a fuk to carry on here with our serious nonsense ?

    The thread titles are pretty good indicators of the content held within, no? I'd have thought it would be relatively straightforward to avoid the threads and post in ones that do appeal to you instead? Is that not how message boards work?


  • #6
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Todays Sunday ?


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  • #7
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Loads of threads about religion? Maybe, it's because religion is more dominant in Irish society, than it is in other countries?


  • #8
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Well it makes a change from The RA, The Brits, and FF/FG.


  • #9
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Oh no, not ANOTHER thread about religion...


    ;)


  • #10
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    COYVB wrote: »
    The thread titles are pretty good indicators of the content held within, no? I'd have thought it would be relatively straightforward to avoid the threads and post in ones that do appeal to you instead? Is that not how message boards work?

    Not really how they work at all.


  • #11
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    Lapin wrote: »
    Not really how they work at all.

    Oh. I've been doing it wrong then. Do I have to go into the threads that don't interest me and complain?


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  • #12
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    There's always the same old topics coming up on AH, all the time, why's religion always singled out. Its a big issue in this country at the moment and there's a big shift away from the church, its relevant and there are different aspects to it that won't get the broader poster discussion from people who don't venture into the religious forums.

    If you don't like a thread topic, don't read it? works wonders for me


  • #13
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Oh, good. A call for censorship.


  • #14
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Sooooooo, does this thread ad or take away from highlighting the God crap?


  • #15
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    Sooooooo, does this thread ad or take away from highlighting the God crap?


    God only knows !


  • #16
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Lapin wrote: »
    God only knows !

    Someone should ask him/her/it then.


  • #17
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    Lapin wrote: »
    God only knows !

    Which God/Gods?


  • #18
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Stealth Recce wrote: »

    Someone should ask him/her/it then.
    How can you if he/she/it doesn't exist?!


  • #19
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Lapin wrote: »
    What is it with all the religion based threads around here lately ?

    Here's just some of today's crap.


    Why are most religious against homosexuality?

    Why do people hate Jews?

    A priest stands up the Vatican


    Why don't the God lovers and God haters have their troll fests on the religion forums and leave those of us who don't give a fuk to carry on here with our serious nonsense ?

    It's mostly moany agnostics or apatheists who have major objections to these discussions on After Hours and expect most other people to not care either. That's all well and good, but honestly, I'd much prefer discussing with a militant atheist who will take me to task on what I'm saying to someone who says that we should simply ignore discussions about a subject that has a huge influence in our world (whether you think that is good or evil is arbitrary).

    The mods have fallen into this nonsense a few times either, but why should this topic be ruled out specifically from discussion?


  • #20
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    lazygal wrote: »
    How can you if he/she/it doesn't exist?!

    Who cares.

    Ask the Boogeyman to pass it on to the Easter Bunny by shining the Bat signal up to the Care Bears.


  • #21
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Lapin wrote: »
    ...Why don't the God lovers and God haters have their troll fests on the religion forums and leave those of us who don't give a fuk to carry on here with our serious nonsense ?

    ...But that would be an anti-choice position! :D


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  • #22
    Bad Santa
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 381 ✭✭Bad Santa


    Lapin wrote: »
    Why don't the God lovers and God haters have their troll fests on the religion forums and leave those of us who don't give a fuk to carry on here with our serious nonsense ?
    Cause then there would just be 17 regulars, four newbies, a sheep and half a ban hammer left.


  • #23
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    You could boil down most of AH to a couple of megathreads quite easily

    1. Dole thread
    2. Abortion thread
    3. Religion thread
    4. Public service thread
    5. Legalise weed/drugs thread


  • #24
    Truncheon Rouge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 388 ✭✭Truncheon Rouge


    Godstirring - i like it. hopefully this is, or shall become modern parlance, a nomenclature as it were for the redundant babblings of the theist/atheist posters who carry the burden of enlightening all and sundry.
    If not why not.

    All godstirrers of all persuasions, we shall not have your fisticuffs in this establishment.


  • #25
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    This.


  • #26
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Oh, good. A call for censorship.

    How can you accuse me of censorship when I said this ?
    Lapin wrote: »
    Why don't the God lovers and God haters have their troll fests on the religion forums and leave those of us who don't give a fuk to carry on here with our serious nonsense ?

    philologos wrote: »
    That's all well and good, but honestly, I'd much prefer discussing with a militant atheist who will take me to task on what I'm saying to someone who says that we should simply ignore discussions about a subject that has a huge influence in our world (whether you think that is good or evil is arbitrary).


    Thats my whole point - I never said we should ignore any discussions. I simply said there are other forums. Some of them hosting debate with militant atheists and others.

    In my opinion, most people who open religious themed threads in AH are stirring the shít.


  • #27
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Lapin wrote: »
    What is it with all the religion based threads around here lately ?

    Here's just some of today's crap.


    Why are most religious against homosexuality?

    Why do people hate Jews?

    A priest stands up the Vatican


    Why don't the God lovers and God haters have their troll fests on the religion forums and leave those of us who don't give a fuk to carry on here with our serious nonsense ?

    Because it's become seriously relevant in the last few months with the case in galway. Gay marriage has also become a possibility.

    And no-one lets us talk about kpmg girl.


  • #28
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    WileyCoyote (Accelleratii Incredibus!) wrote: »
    Which God/Gods?

    This one


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lapin wrote: »
    What is it with all the religion based threads around here lately ?

    Here's just some of today's crap.


    Why are most religious against homosexuality?

    Why do people hate Jews?

    A priest stands up the Vatican


    Why don't the God lovers and God haters have their troll fests on the religion forums and leave those of us who don't give a fuk to carry on here with our serious nonsense ?

    Oh my Science.


  • #30
    harney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭harney


    mattjack wrote: »
    Todays Sunday ?

    Yep, bloody Sunday!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euhGPrgVZj0


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  • #31
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,329 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I'm lucky, my browser has a little scroll bar on the right hand side of the window ;)


  • #32
    Drakares
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Drakares


    Hates threads on religion.

    Makes thread on religion.


  • #33
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Lapin wrote: »
    Not really how they work at all.
    Too true. It involves Squirrels and wires and stuff. I read that somwhere.


  • #34
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Lapin wrote: »
    How can you accuse me of censorship when I said this ?

    Thats my whole point - I never said we should ignore any discussions. I simply said there are other forums. Some of them hosting debate with militant atheists and others.

    In my opinion, most people who open religious themed threads in AH are stirring the shít.

    Most of the objections comes from agnostics and apatheists. If you don't care about the discussion don't read it, don't answer it.

    I prefer discussing with an atheist who strongly disagrees with me and is actually engaged in the topic provided they are respectful about it.


  • #35
    twinQuins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭twinQuins


    OP, if you're serious about this you may have more luck starting a thread in Feedback.

    As for my own opinion: almost every thread on AH has a more suitable forum, while you might not like the threads I'd say until it comes to a point where they're taking up the majority of space on the first page they can stay. Presumably not every thread appeals to you and you simply ignore those that don't, just treat these the same.


  • #36
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Loads of threads about religion? Maybe, it's because religion is more dominant in Irish society, than it is in other countries?
    Yeah, those lucky Saudis, Iranians etc etc


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  • #37
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Yeah, those lucky Saudis, Iranians etc etc

    I wonder, how many Saudis, Iranians, etc are registered with boards.ie ;)


  • #38
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    twinQuins wrote: »
    OP, if you're serious about this you may have more luck starting a thread in Feedback.

    As for my own opinion: almost every thread on AH has a more suitable forum, while you might not like the threads I'd say until it comes to a point where they're taking up the majority of space on the first page they can stay. Presumably not every thread appeals to you and you simply ignore those that don't, just treat these the same.


    True - But there is no denying the increase in God and religious themed threads around here recently. As I said, I think the objective behind many of these is to stir the shít rather than serious discussion.

    Nobody reads posts in Feedback.


  • #39
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    I wonder, how many Saudis, Iranians, etc are registered with boards.ie ;)
    My point was in relation to the dominance of religion in certain societies.

    To answer your question, I would say very few:)


  • #40
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Lapin wrote: »
    God only knows !
    WileyCoyote (Accelleratii Incredibus!) wrote: »
    Which God/Gods?

    Brian Wilson


  • #41
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Why don't you just put a load of suggestions for interesting no religious threads? Or create the threads?


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  • #42
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Lapin wrote: »
    True - But there is no denying the increase in God and religious themed threads around here recently. As I said, I think the objective behind many of these is to stir the shít rather than serious discussion.
    In fairness to the powers that be, they did seem to be clamping down on it in recent weeks but they are being allowed more in the last week or so.
    Lapin wrote: »
    Nobody reads posts in Feedback.
    Ironically enough, this is a popular excuse given as to why a religious thread is not on it's proper forum.

    'There is more traffic here'

    'I wanted a broader view'

    'I won't get away with my hate filled bigotry anywhere else'

    etc etc.


  • #43
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Lapin wrote: »
    How can you accuse me of censorship when I said this ?

    Because that quote seeks censorship on the AH forum. Duh!


  • #44
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Because that quote seeks censorship on the AH forum. Duh!


    Don't be so fúcking ridiculous.


  • #45
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Lapin wrote: »
    Don't be so fúcking ridiculous.

    Advice you could well take yourself. AH is a broad-themed forum. No topic is off-limits. There is feedback available if you'd like that changed. You don't have to read threads that don't interest you. You can simply ignore them. You don't have the right to demand their removal. That is seeking censorship.


  • #46
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Because that quote seeks censorship on the AH forum.
    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    That is seeking censorship.


    One - Just one single example of anywhere I have sought censorship please.

    And try to respond without insults. They demean what you say even further.


  • #47
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Lapin wrote: »
    One - Just one single example of anywhere I have sought censorship please.

    And try to respond without insults. They demean what you say even further.

    In fairness, you have no good argument at present other than it annoys you and a few other agnostics on here. It's understandable that many posters will be frustrated.


  • #48
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,589 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    So we move the religion threads to religion forums.

    The politics threads to the politics forum.

    Humanities thread to the humanities forum.

    What exactly will there be left to discuss in AH?

    I quite like reading AH threads on the above subjects. They have a completely different flavour to a thread in the specialized forums.


  • #49
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    philologos wrote: »
    In fairness, you have no good argument at present other than it annoys you and a few other agnostics on here. It's understandable that many posters will be frustrated.

    I've said a couple of times that I believe most of the religious themed threads in AH to be the work of shít stirring OP's rather than serious attempts at debate and discussion.


  • #50
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Lapin wrote: »
    One - Just one single example of anywhere I have sought censorship please.

    And try to respond without insults. They demean what you say even further.

    You've been the only person to offer insult so far.
    I already pointed out that your OP calls for censorship of the AH forum.


  • #51
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Duh!
    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    You've been the only person to offer insult so far.


    Where exactly ?


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