The best defense is to claim offense.

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42. I know as a mod we were pretty agressive about moving threads to Religion,

as they always seemed to devolve into the same mess.

Look, I don't dismiss or discount the prejudice that is shown towards atheists IRL. Based both on anecdotal reports and well done surveys, I have no doubt of it's existence and the impact it has on those who do not hold religious beliefs. I believe that atheists should be treated the same as religious groups - with respect and sensitivity - and that more education needs to be done so that the general populace becomes less hostile and afraid.

That does not mean to say that behavior that violates the TOS or CS of this site should be tolerated. Perhaps the juries are just doing their jobs and hiding posts based on that. I don't see any evidence that there is anti-atheist bias in their decisions, although I do see that many jurors object to the behavior of certain individual members.