Stop fighting about who created the world....

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75. I can't speak authoritatively to the motivations of others.

But from my interactions with the atheists on this board, I cannot agree that any of them come here with the sole motivation of breaking up the party. Rather, I think the disconnect is largely due to a fundamental disagreement over the importance of certain issues, the effects of which are exacerbated by personalities who are seen as trying to dominate, direct, and/or dictate the course of discussion to comport with their personal feelings on the matter.

The issue of alienation is really a chicken-or-the-egg kind of problem. Are the posters you describe alienating progressive believers and faith-friendly atheists, or have they themselves been alienated by progressive believers and faith-friendly atheists? The answer seems to me to be cyclical; a feedback loop of mutual disrespect and alienation. Addressing only one side of that equation will only result in its continued imbalance. If civil discourse is really something people desire, then they're going to have to take a good look at themselves and the people standing next to them, not just those standing across the aisle.

That is, in any event, my admittedly anecdotal opinion on the matter.