Why I won’t be going to Skeptic or Atheist meetings anymore

[Starboard Tack]

71. I am not speaking of specific posts and do not have the time to do your homework for you.

I am agreeing in part with another member about a handful of posters here who basically spend most of their time spewing venom at believers, or at anyone who doesn't share their animosity toward believers. I and others who dare to show tolerance toward people of faith become the subject of witch hunts and smear campaigns. You know it, I know it and anyone who reads the threads either here or in Meta or in A&A knows it too. I've witnessed the bullying of Rug, cbayer, tmo and others by the "purity" patrol of so-called atheists. Well, I feel the same way about them as I do about any fundies. You throw them out of your little group and then trash them. Very fucking classy, trashing people who can't defend themselves.
I have been accused of being a sock puppet, a homophobe, a survivalist and god knows what else by them, and you, yourself have joined in the attacks, suggesting that I was flailing and providing you some good entertainment over the homophobia/pedophilia strawman. If you want to be treated like adults, then behave like adults.