Those that come in here have access to the internet as such they have access to information and they have the ability to make a rational decision once they have the information, if they opt to actually question it. If they don't it's their decision. As such I have no pity for them.

Well i've yet to hear a Christian theory that can change my views. They're usually very weak.

Well it all depends...

If some pathetic dolt has been made so afraid to live his or her life because of the stories about an invisible scumbag who lives in the sky who is going to banish them to an eternity of torture should they not be miserable bastards here on Earth...then yeah,,,I kind of *do* pity them, because they are throwing their lives away for nothing.

But if some self-righteous, indignatious douche bag is using his or her alleged "faith" as a means to express their hatred or bigotry...and should they have a burning desire to tell other people how to live *thier* lives...well...as far as I'm concerned, they can grow an inoperable brain tumor, dribble into a cup, and get wheeled around in agonizing pain until they have to sell their jewelry to buy groceries. 

Not that I have any real feelings on the subject or anything.

I pity the fool!

I think of Christian online fundies as new puppies to play with and then watch them run out in front of the truck of logic.  I'd cry for the puppy, not the fundie.

No. Pity takes the fun out of it.

Rich Woods, can you kill that signature?  Seriously, it's larger than the following 3 posts combined!

I don't like when a christianic person full of good will comes here and is repelled by cynicism. Fundies deserves it, but I've met several wonderful American christians and people like them certainly do have a benefit in form of their current faith, or despite of it, if you say it so. Mystical experiences are available to everyone under many forms, to atheists as well (I'm an example). No matter what people think about their basis, it's the same principle which causes mystical experiences, under a guise of prayer, beauty of nature/art or some kind of meditation.
People aren't today divided by their theism or atheism, but if they respond to love or fear. Both flourishes in these days.
We know about fundie expectators of the Doom's day, predictors of 3rd world war, or conspirators about mystical secret orders, controlling the world. These have in common, that they respond to the aspect of fear. Fanaticism isn't just a problem of religion, it's an archetype of thinking, independent on a faith. Yeah, even non-religional people can be fanatics. The coming age causes, that the afraid will have more of the fear and the loving will love more. This means, that there won't be so many neutral or undecided people in the world, whatever will happen in such state, will happen to everyone.
I think that a biblical prediction, that "I will not bring peace, but a sword" and adjacent descriptions of sons who will turn against their fathers, etc, very precisely describes this sociologic effect. For example, young freethinkers literally abandon the fundamentalism of their fathers. This indicates nothing but an insight into ways of the world, of the one who wrote that passage, whoever he was.

I think it's not right to erradicate religions and their mystic way of viewing the world. It is right to create a balance, so theists will be only those, who feel like that, not like their parents and leaders wanted. Those, who responds to the aspect of love, can live together without conflicts, no matter what their philosophy or religion is.
Well, and what about the rest? Once we start to create that balance, they will have less and less reasons to be afraid. The ones too old to see that will die by old age and the newer born generations won't be so afraid already and will merge with a fearless culture.

I do feel a lot of pity for all theists, to tell the truth.  The ones who come here with the same recycled shit are the ones I pity the most, because they're either too ignorant, too dumb, or too brainwashed to see how incredibly bad their arguments are, and how horrible they look when they get into an argument.  All three of those possibilities are worth pity.

Having said that, having pity doesn't mean I just leave them alone.  It's pity that drives me to try to help them, and the only way to help is to get more and more people on board the atheism train, and to expose their beliefs for what they are.

none whatsoever

I feel more pity for the mods and regulars who have to wade through all that crap.

-Triften

I think that any Christian that would visit this website is probably a non-believer. They just don't have the courage to be honest with themselves.