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If anyone is interested, mister Turok is over on the SSC open thread complaining about us: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-409/comment/180699602
I'm curious, why on earth do people think this is a "hugbox for fundamentalist Christians"? If anything I see progressive folks get more leniency. Anyway, sad to see.
Are you seriously asking? Yes, it does come off as a bit of a Christian hugbox at times.
Many posters here, yourself included (yourself especially?), take ample opportunity to mention that they are Christian, and often use the forum to discuss Christian topics and Christian theology as if it would be uncontroversial.
It's not so frequent that I can quickly dig up an example, but I've noticed it and been annoyed by it before. It's innocent enough - one person sees the other mention their faith, and takes that as license to proceed in a discussion where the baseline axioms of Christianity are assumed. I hope you can appreciate that an atheist watching a thread devolve into bible study would be miffed.
As an atheist/agnostic, I am rather happy to have a community where I can talk to Christians who take Christianity seriously, and aren't ashamed of having serious beliefs. If themotte can occasionally feel very Christian by rationalist standards, that's because basically every other grey/blue tribe space are aggressively atheist hugboxes for obvious historical reasons (descent from New Atheism etc.).
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