taiji2's complaint

As one of the relatively few remaining Christians, (although not fundamentalist or creationist), on this forum it does at times get difficult. I often refrain from posting because I know that if I do with my minority viewpoint, (depending on the subject), that I will have likely committed myself to a spending a considerable amount of time to respond to numerous posters.I find that in general the responses are reflective and courteous. There are some posters who become patronizing and somewhat insulting but that is ok as I can simply choose not to respond to what it is they have posted.I am grateful to this forum as it has given me an education. I have learned about things on the scientific side of things and I have had my theological beliefs challenged and as a result I now believe things that I didn't believe before and don't believe things that I did.I think that possibly taiji2 might consider this an opportunity to learn from some very informed people and just disregard the negative that does occur here. I agree that it does at times take a bit of a thick skin, but in my view, it is worth it. Taiji2, as has already been mentioned, seems well informed himself, and I hope that he gives us the opportunity to learn from him as well.

It does seem to appear to me that there are considerably more non-theists than there are theists, however I certainly can't compare what Faith and the others go through to my situation. I have no real complaint, except occasionally, to the way others correspond with me.My point was that when I post as a Christian, I wind up having to respond to several different responders which is time consuming. As a result I usually only post about anything contentious when I know that I will have a reasonable amount of time available.For example in the thread that I started about my beliefs ( My Beliefs- GDR ) I spent many hours debating my views primarily with non-theists although partly with fundamentalists as well. The thread wound up with 1324 posts. I enjoyed the discussion and even changed my position on one aspect of my beliefs as a result. The point is though that in holding a minority view one has to be prepared to spend a fair amount of time with it as you'll be largely on your own.That actually is not meant as a criticism of the forum but simply a comment.