Assholes !!! Assholes everywhere !!! ..lol

I hope whoever is holding the gun to your head lets you leave.

For the most part I find people here are respectful, but it is a mixed bag. Some people are very opinionated on certain subjects, and some people are just opinionated, period! I think the system is very good at weeding out the trolls. But there are good and bad everywhere.

I've not run into anything nearly that bad on this site.

I do think it pays to have a bit of a thick skin here sometimes, and not take things too personally. Of course there may be extreme cases. Take the rough with the smooth here, is my motto. Damned if I can find a community of broadly like-minded 'souls' in the so-called real world. If people get a bit snarky sometimes, assume they're having a bad day. I have 'em myself.

All of that happened on this site? Damn. lol

i feel your pain my dude

That's what the block buttons for. Use it liberally. I know it may be hard to believe but there are some women on this site that aren't in love with me yet. Crazy world we live in huh?
I hear those guys over in astronomy are pretty smart.

I think that you made the right presumption that intelligent, critical people might forego religion but now you know that people come with a variety of opinions without regard to the aforementioned intellectual presence and within any population you are going to have a variety of people unless it is restricted further. The way that this app/website also is a date app can attract people that are not interested in intellectual pursuit.

People are always going to be just that, people.
When you start expecting them to behave better, for any reason, you should start preparing yourself to be bitterly disappointed, because they're going to start behaving even worse.

There are no "better angels of our nature". Lincoln, sadly, was completely wrong.

Sorry for your disappointment.

Just because something has been around a long time doesn't make it acceptable and just because someone doesn't agree with you on everything doesn't make them unintelligent.
Have you ever heard the saying "if you meet a jerk in the morning, he's probably an asshole but if you meet jerks all day, you may be the jerk"? Frankly, if you don't like us, there's the door?

I’ve blocked some trolls. Sorry you’ve had bad experiences, for the most part I’ve found good people on the site. I hope you’ll give it a little more time and find people you connect with

The human species is comprised of all types. What would cause one to think that any group of human beings would not tend to reflect the whole to some degree? And it should be noted that intelligence has little or nothing to do with it. There are genuine PhD toting scientists (in the hard sciences) who believe in the Young Earth BS of the fundamentalist Dead-Jew-On-A-Stick crowd. I've had colleagues who consulted their horoscopes daily and made important decisions based on the position of this planet or that star. Intelligent folks, one and all.

Although I don't accept woo in any form, I live in the real world of here and now and am aware of how it works. I fuss at them when it seems appropriate, otherwise I just laugh inwardly and move along to something of more interest.

I'm having a good time...

Very well spoken! It’s a pity that we can’t have political discussions anymore without histerics getting in the way.

I've preached this a lot today for whatever reason. Atheism does not require intelligence. I could copy and paste this from another post, but the only thing atheists have in common is a lack of belief in a god or gods. That's it. You shouldn't expect anything here except other people who don't believe in god.

So yes, if you're surprised, blame your own assumption that atheism requires a higher intelligence, or the assumption that all atheists would have the same or incredibly similar worldviews.