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Guidelines for Visitor Feedback

2006-04-23

Guidelines for Visitor Feedback

General Guidelines

Visitors to this site are invited to submit their brief comments, on the understanding that their comments may or may not be published, in full or in part, in the Feedback section of the site.

The Feedback section of this site is not a real-time forum. Comments are reviewed by the webmaster before publication, and this process may take several days or more.

When submitting comments, you must specify an email address. However, you may request that your email address not be published. If your comments are published on the site and you have requested that your email address be kept confidential, then the address will not be included with your published comments.

Previously refuted arguments

Remarks which are in fundamental disagreement with the atheistic point of view presented on this site will sometimes be published, but you should at least try to be original or informative in some way! For example, if all you have to say is one of the following, then there is no point in sending your message:

• "God hates you because of your horrible sin of rejecting him/her/it." We have all heard it a million times.
• "Jesus (or Allah, or Jehovah, or Zeus, or The Goddess) loves you in spite of your horrible sin of rejecting him/her/it." We have heard that one too.
• "God must exist because so many people believe in him/her/it." So truth should be decided by a vote?
• "God must exist because because the president of the republic is a believer." Of course! We all know politicians are never wrong.

Or if you simply want to reiterate that tired old nonsense that:

• "atheism is a religion too" or
• "atheism is just another belief like religious belief"

then please, do not waste the webmaster's time. Indeed, many, many people have said the same and similar things before you. The Basic Principles page, the FAQ, numerous comments and responses in the Feedback section, as well as other texts on this site have already been written to dispense with such misconceptions.

At the risk of repeating what has already been said and written many times: atheism (as presented on this site) is certainly not a religion, and it is not even a belief: it is an absence of belief. Atheism is simply the inevitable result of applying healthy skepticism to the extraordinary and baseless assertions of theism.