Oh no, I’m all freedom of speech. What I’m not for is freedom to say whatever garbage you want. There’s a fine line between disagreeing with someone’s belief and outright broadcasting it by shoving it down other people’s throats (I cannot stress on how both fundamentalists and atheists fail at this).
Yes, but these are things we need to live with if we want freedom of speech. It wouldn’t make sense to have freedom of speech, yet have certain things that you can’t talk about.Oh no, I’m all freedom of speech. What I’m not for is freedom to say whatever garbage you want. There’s a fine line between disagreeing with someone’s belief and outright broadcasting it by shoving it down other people’s throats (I cannot stress on how both fundamentalists and atheists fail at this).
I just believe that a line needs to be drawn. If we wanna debate about beliefs, let’s be civil and set a date, time, and place. You don’t go around the internet or on the streets attacking/harrassing anybody just because they have different beliefs than you all in the name of freedom of speech do you?
Well they react to Catholic fanatics as well. When they see Catholics praying and claiming a miracle, outside of an office building, because the condensation in the glass window, resembles the Blessed Mother, they reject it, and quiet frankly, its an embarrassment to me as a Catholic as well.
Well usually the people who go around voicing their opinions like that are looking to start some sort of heated conflict. But they have the right to do that. Just as we have the right to ignore them.
But what results from such heated conflicts? Simply a pointless exchange of insults and verbal mud. All it does is cause distress and irritation for people. Nothing productive has ever come out of such ‘debates’.
And I agree with you that nothing comes from such exchanges. But that doesn’t mean anyone should stop people from having these debates.
Yeah, I’ve seen many of them. Although youtube has actually banned and censored many athiests on their website for speaking their opinion. Personally I find it disgusting that a site that’s meant to provide an outlet for people’s opinions, would begin to censor certain opinions.
All right, I’ll be open. Give me one good reason why these exchanges should not be prohibited? What is wrong with trying to prevent people from only hurting each other and causing more division?
Yet why is it that anti-atheist vids get such low ratings? Why is it that there are more atheists harrassing religious channels than other people harrassing the atheists?
I already have. To prohibit them from having these exchanges would be denying them their basic rights.
Yeah see, this is what I’m talking about. You make something that glorifies your religion, then you have these jerks lambasting you for a being a ‘delusional theist’ and posting video responses just to prove a point. Can’t you see that something’s wrong here?
That has to do with the people themselves. Although youtube is unfriendly to athiests, there are definitely more athiests than religious users.
Those people are just idiots and jerks. If they want to waste their time spewing hate, than let them. You don’t need to pay them any mind.
Yet why is it that I notice more hateful comments on religious ones? Seriously, have you tried to measure the amount of hate certain religious and anti-religious vids have? It can tell you a lot about who the community is biased against.
I have a picture with a painting of Jesus at my office. One of my colleagues saw it but didn’t say anything about it, Instead he started sending me links(by windows messenger) to websites that “prove” there is no God or links to videos of comedians who bash faith. My reaction was asking why he sent me those links. He replied that he thought they were “interesting”.
Most likely because religion has always generated a lot of backlash, it’s been constant since the beginning of recorded history, so why would it not be present on youtube?
It’s simple really. With regards to YouTube, I will merely apprehend anybody who comments on religious vids in this manner:
