God wasn't born in America, so it's against the Constitution. It's second only to the Bible in Lawfulness.

Perhaps Atheists should vote for Satan?

If you can't vote for God, at least show your faith in God: stay home and pray on the 4th.

What a moron....

Yes... I'm sure god would want the prayers more than anything else one could do. He will take care of whoever he wants to have in the White House. Have faith, Neighbour !

Don't Christians believe in Satan? If not why are they always bringing him up?

By that logic, you're actually a humanist. You know that God is a construct of the minds of men.

You even have evidence of that - a book about god written by men.

You just don't admit it. Otherwise you'd be rational.

Seriously... or... I mean... um...

God damn it!  i can't get a read on this.  LoveThyNeighbor, I gotta hand it to you, man.  You're keeping me guessing better than most theists who come here.  I truly can't decide if you're just an insanely ignorant twit or a pimply teenager getting lulz.

I want you to understand that what I'm about to say is 100% serious.  I am not joking.  This is not cleverly disguised humor, or cynicism, or anger, or malice, or anything else.  It's one hundred percent honesty from the bottom of my heart:

Your posts are so bizarre and so insane sounding that they are completely indistinguishable from humor.  I'm really not kidding.  You may not realize this, but to anyone outside of your religion (if you're not joking, which... I honestly can't tell) your entire belief system sounds like someone making a joke.

I'm not kidding.

Really.

LTN has to be a parody. Nobody could possibly be that lacking in common sense, logic and understanding and still be able to function.

All right, you've got me. How you could figure out my identity is beyond me.

But I have good reason for being here! Semi-good reason at least.

Check out this link: http://www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/showthread.php?t=137310

Metacrock, who has called all atheists "Demons" and is top two in "Fundies Say The Darnest Things", challenged atheists to go to Rational Response Squad forums.

I'm a pretty decent guy, actually.

Anyway, I think I prefer the Atheism sub-forum over at CARM more. Atheists are in minority there, which means more debate.

Well, the first thing that tipped me off was that you weren't verbose enough to be a real theist troll.  You were too content to leave it at single sentences.  Actually, that was the biggest tipoff.  I'm a student of human nature, after all.

As for my methods, well... a guy's got to have some secrets.  I also know you have some interest in sports, although I couldn't quite make out what issues you have with training camps.  I don't speak Swedish, after all.

That's the challenge he issued.  Out of curiosity, how would you assess your experiment?  Granted, you didn't really give us much to go on -- you were so effective at trolling that you gave yourself away!  But did you find that we were horribly mean, or do you think our reaction was at least trying to be somewhat constructive given how little you gave us to go on?

For the most part, I've given up debate, although I still get into what you might call a real debate from time to time here.  RRS is more for atheists, honestly.  If you look on the sidebar, you'll see that I, along with many of the science types around here, spend most of our time trying to teach anyone who will learn.  We're here to provide information for anyone who wants it, and a safe haven for atheists who want to hang out with other atheists.  Sure, we get our rocks off by pummeling the occasional theist.  It's kind of nice to be the majority for once in our lives.

I know things are a bit different in Sweden.  If you've never been to America, you should make the trip sometime.  Atheists are hated, villified, ostracized, and generally hated.  There are some people who post on this board who don't know another atheist in their whole town.  RRS is here largely to make it known to atheists everywhere that it's ok to be an atheist, and there's nothing wrong with being confident about their beliefs.

Anyway, like I said, good joke. 

Ok... Mr. Neighbour, have I given you enough time yet ???

My last post ( assuming you read it --- actually this is for anyone who read it)

DID YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SAID ???

I thought about being really pissed  without any smileys and not tipping my hat to the fact that I was just playing you and for that matter anyone reading. But that would've been not  nice at all... not very fair either.

Be honest, did anything upset you in any miniscule way when you read that post?

Sorry about that...

NOT !   

Haha, sorry if I was offending you in any way, I didn't mean anything I said.

I guess a presentation is in order. I'm a 16-year old boy from Sweden, who is in the first year of "high school". I have quite an interest in religion, society and so on. I like discussing those things, but because my fellow peers doesn't have much interest in it (some don't even know what forums are), and because I have Asperger's Syndrome, I go to Internet forums. Many of the arguments I used here are actually authentic arguments used at CARM, I kinda copied it. Pretending to be a theist is not something I have ever done before, and I assure you I will never do it again.

Read a little further young one.

Specifically. my post # 23

Heh.  You have done well with the smileys, grasshopper.  And for what it's worth, your point was well made.  I think in all fairness, we ought to give E (that's his first initial, and I promise it's the last semi-threatening piece of information I'm going to reveal.)  the benefit of the doubt.  He'd never been to RRS before, and he heard a claim about us.  He used the scientific method -- that is, he attempted to replicate the results he had heard by replicating the experiment.  No harm there, I suppose.

It's also an interesting twist for Poe's Law.  I caught him because his humor was distinguishable from a theist's serious nuttery.  Is it possible that Poe's Law needs a correllary?   (God dammit, I have to look that stupid word up every time.  I have no idea why I can't remember how to spell it.)  That is:

Correllary:  Atheists cannot replicate the Poe Effect no matter how hard they try.

Oh... and was I serious when I mentioned scary bits of information being leaked?  Or am I just making a joke...

Damn, the internet is a tough place to pull a prank, isn't it?

I am going to be 100% honest now Neighbour... you should stick around or at least come back to RRS from time to time. I've no doubt we could benefit from and appreciate another youthful voice around here. Also, check out the teen thing (somebody correct me if wrong) I think it's freethinkingteens . com  or something like that. You might enjoy!

[MOD EDIT: Free Thinking Teens ]

Yeah Nigel, now this is funny. I was just reading the OP and the first post Neighbour made and was thinking to myself, I wonder if this guy is for real ?

At about that same moment I refreshed the page and saw your "new"post (#3) and decided to respond thinking (again!) about Poe's Law.

OOPS edit: I ended up getting delayed by my puppy who had a small emergency I had to attend to and so I eventually did post but it was later.

I so called it on LTN..nevertheless I was wondering for awhile there! Nice to have you around I'm sad to say your impression wasn't unlike actual christians I know.

You're canadian. Isn't that enough?

lol.

 God isn't a candidate.

Who?

I remember, but I wasn't old enough to vote until '92.