Anti-Religious Trolling On Mumsnet

That's my opinion too.
Sometimes things are just not about you
Proselytizing of any stripe gets my goat.

Some of us enjoy discussions about religion and spirituality regardless of our own particular standpoint.

And Lottie- I am never going to stand by and let someone take a course of action which I sincerely believe to be potentially damaging to a child. That person saying they don't want to hear from anyone except people who support them will not stop me. And it shouldn't. I think linking to that particular thread does not help your cause.

Ie, what they want is for people not to discuss it. IMHO

I'm not derailing anything - this thread is about how it's impossible to have a conversation in the religion or spirituality topic without it being vandalised. So that in the end, if you were asking for advice, or to talk about and not debate something, you ended up not being able to do so.

I've tried to demonstrate how this has been going on for years and how tiresome and boring it is. And how I object to it being dressed up as concern. As I said, I'm glad this thread has been started because I often don't post questions in the Religion topic any more because I'm not in the mood to feel peed off. And that's exactly what some people want.

Ah, but 7Days you will be told now how concerned people are that religion or spiritual beliefs or belief in the paranormal do harm people actually

There's someone over trying to derail the new thread now 😞

It doesn't make any difference whether it's religion or not. To tell the OP her feelings about it were invalid was rude and patronising and derailed the thread in the guise of 'concern' which is almost always the reason put forward when actually that's not the reason - the reason is to shut down debate about anything that makes certain posters uncomfortable for whatever reason. It's patronising and that's how it comes across. And it's still happening today.

What debate though really Bertrand? I think most people would agree that conversations about personal stuff such as religion should be allowed, unimpeded on what is after all just a chat forum.
Discussions in parliament about religion in public life sgould be indepth with input from all stakeholders ie all of us.
As long as no one is being harmed, live and let live.

Don't see how many would disagree with that.

I want to know if the people who think it's okay to start a thread about a specific poster think that Jesus Christ would have done the same thing.

Turn the other cheek maybe?

No, I think he'd be, and maybe is ashamed.

Bo as Ohfuckaducky has now clearly explained why she thought the title was goady I will leave it as you so politely requested.

I am an atheist, didn't see the 3pm thread, just this one, and actually find ohfucky's posts on even this thread inflammatory and offensive.

Agree with OP.

Loved the post about not chasing the pizza delivery guy down the road to return pizza leaflets as not liking pizza...

^ Ohfuckaducky sorry if my joke offended. It just seemed such an impossible quest to avoid completely all words with any connotations to beliefs.

Can I suggest that we just stop talking about the 3 o'clock thread? There is an interesting debate going on beside it- maybe we could focus on that?

Ohfuckaducky oh dear! What I you going to be left with? I could probably give you many more, I studied some etymology, as part of a language unit at uni. Do you think you might want to reconsider your user name?

No Ohfuckaducky you haven't explained why you think it was goady, how was the OP being goady? The OP clearly didn't start the thread with an intention of having a go at you or anyone else who is a non-believer.

"My point, Bertrand about that thread is that the OP asked for people not to derail the thread and they went ahead and did so anyway."

It wasn't a thread about religion. It was a thread about a frightened child and the OP was completely resistant to any non supernatural cause for the child's fear.

I remember being very concerned about the child, frankly, and did my very best in the thread to get the OP to be more open minded.

My life experience did not give me a frame of reference to show it any significance.

Could it be also that your particular life experience gives you a particular frame of reference that makes you believe the intention of the thread title was to bait whereas other people's frame of reference differs, so they do not believe this?

You must be very precious if you find "what are you doing at 3pm" goady and click baity.