Seems DU may have a lot of bigots as members per the definition.

[el_bryanto]

101. It's obviously completely fair - Muslims and other believers choose to believe.

The sorts of people who have the desire to believe exhibit certain characteristics - that's the nature of belief. Muslims and Christians by choosing to define themselves as believers choose to take on themselves the characteristics of what they believe, both positive and negative. When you identify as a Christian you are identifying as a member of the same religion as Fred Phelps. When you identify as a Muslim you are identifying as a member of the same religion as those people who committed the Murders last week.

One can argue that there is a large difference between the type of Christian who participates at DU and Fred Phelps - but that assumes that you seem value in being a Christian, a Muslim, or a believer. If you see no value in it, than DU Christians are just willfully choosing to identify with a faith that produces monsters.

I am a Christian so do see a big difference between what I practice and what Fred Phelps practices (or practiced I guess he's dead now). But if I were an Atheist who thought that belief was nonsense, I could certainly understand how it would look. I mean there's nothing forcing DU Christians to be Christians. There's nothing forcing DU Muslims from being Muslim. It's probably a bit different in France, where most Muslims are both culturally and ethnically "other" from the French populace - a person who looks like a Muslim will be taken for a Muslim whether he or she attends Mosque or not.

Bryant