Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

[Mavros Whissell]

A simple question to see if people believe that arguing over theology has any place on Chesstalk.

[Andy Shaw]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

No.

Chesstalk is the name of this forum. We talk about chess.

[Mavros Whissell]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

I agree Andy. I would just hope this means that insults of any religion or even of atheism cease. So I voted "no" to start things off. I shouldn't have to see my beliefs mocked on a chess site and have to defend them.

[David Gordon]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

All Religions, Beliefs, and Etc. must be mocked equally.:)

[Neil Frarey]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

Caïssa, goddess of chess, wherefore art thou?

[Jason Manley]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

To be perfectly honest, I don't think that arguing over theology should have a place on Chesstalk, but as can be seen from a cursory glance at the threads on Chesstalk, there are a large number of threads, including some of the lengthiest ones, which have practically nothing to do with chess whatsoever. Based on that, I would have to say that there is a place on Chesstalk for arguing religious issues, as there is plenty of scope for arguing political issues, and I cannot fathom how in today's global political climate you can have one without having the other.

[Paul Bonham]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

All Religions, Beliefs, and Etc. must be mocked equally.:)

Ahhhh.... you are a member of the Church of Mockerology. The canon of this church is very laughingly strict: jokes against any belief system including Mockerology must be measured precisely by a language-parsing computer running Windows Mock 10 on an Intel j7 cpu (the "j" stands for "joke") with at least 64 Gigglebytes of RAM (Random Access Mockery).

The jokes must be re-worded until they each measure precisely 42.

There's the famous story of Rodney Dangerfield's wife being kidnapped by church members. They cut off her thumb and mailed it to him demanding ransom.

Rodney responded that he needed more proof.

[Sam Sharpe]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

There's a lot of stuff posted that doesn't belong here. However, the owner provides direction to the mod(s) as to what is permissible and, since just about nothing is purged, everything is fair game.

All I can suggest is not to respond.

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Poll - Does Arguing Religions or Atheism have any place on Chesstalk?

Imagine if you learned how to spell atheism. That'd sure be neat. You'd almost be like an adult.