Debate An Atheist

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A place for theists to come and debate atheists.

Atheism, for the purposes of this community, is defined as lack of belief in deities (as opposed to belief in a lack of deities or other definitions).

Rules:

Absolute requirement on respectful discourse.
No downvoting for disagreement or poor arguments! Use downvotes only for egregious breaking of rules and for disrespectful or off-topic discourse.
No spamming or advertising.
No trolling.
No NSFW.
No low effort posts or top level replies.
Posts must be on topic and present a debate or discussion topic with explanation / support. Link dropping (a link with no explanation or summary) won't be allowed. Links that support an argument are fine.
No bigotry, sexism, homophobia, racism, etc.

founded 2 years ago

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Zamboniman

Welcome to Debate An Atheist (self.debate_an_atheist)

submitted 2 years ago by Zamboniman to c/debate_an_atheist

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A friendly and respectful place to debate various topics pertaining to atheism (and therefore theism). I'm interested in thoughts on moderation style, rules, types of posts to encourage and allow, etc. Feel free to comment!

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[–] sleet01 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, ZM, glad to see you are active here!

Do you think we will see much engagement here? It seems like all the more conservative subs are fine with Reddit's changes and are glad to see us go, so I wonder if any of them will join the migration.

[–] Zamboniman 2 points 2 years ago

Glad to see you here sleet01.

We will see. The numbers on Lemmy are still pretty small overall. Two things need to happen, I think, for a ~~subreddit~~ community like this to gain traction here. First, enough people need to be on Lemmy that some decent conversations can happen in the more niche communities, such as this one. Second, it's going to depend somewhat on the demographics of the people that come to Lemmy.

Time will tell, but at least the community exists now. And I figured since it wasn't here when I signed up I might as well create it, and then I'm in on the ground floor for helping set the tone of it.

If it does gain traction I'll be looking for moderator help and better development of the sidebar content.