All right Yazata, I was a bit scatter gun, but you're right, I find it frustrating that when I click the 'New Posts' button most days eight of the ten newest topics are about Jesus, and for me, more tiresome still about how he cannot possibly have been what they say he was. All right already! Notice I am not saying if I believe in Jesus or not; it's not important to my opinion here. What I am asking is why are so many purported scientific types who have taken the trouble to join a science forum so unhealthily intrigued, so obsessed with religious questions? If they find the religion question so fascinating I think they ought to join a Christian forum and start a polite debate with people who care about such things. Such posters need to mosey down to their village pastor and have a good, long heart-to-heart. I think buried deep in their atheistic bravado is a need to believe, and hey! that's their own private affair. Why stink up our science forum with their inner spiritual struggles? This forum should be about math, physics, biology, astronomy, history even, but why the top-heavy New Posts of theistic concern?
Also, maybe you missed my addressing exchemist above:
I know he's a good bloke, and I almost always agree with what he says. I just saw an opportunity when he said
to stand the phrase on its head and say how it often seems the opposite way round to me because of the obsession with God on this supposedly scientific forum. That's why I compared the obsessed with medieval monks- obviously they were very interested in Godly matters, and obvious (to me at least) the were mortal men, well educated, intelligent and literate men (the only such in their day and for centuries) so naturally they would have had their doubts about the whole God existence thing, and naturally, as you also point out, they were interested in scientific questions although there was as yet no such thing as the scientific method back then.
All I want then is to see less religious debate and more out and out science in these threads. @Atheists: no one cares what you think about God, Jesus and religion! Join a Christian forum! You're boring me!