I think that we are starting notice the decline of Y! answers...\n\nIt seems that the number of:\nhomophobes, \npeople who answer "bible" for everything, \nchild abuse antagonists, \nsexists \nand racists \n\nis sky rocketing on here.\n\nYour thoughts?
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When I first discovered Yahoo Answers, I was addicted. I was on every night, and whenever I head some free time at work. My husband picked on me, and jokingly asked how many points I needed to get to the next level. He asked me one day last week, and my response was that I may never get to the next level, as there are fewer and fewer questions worth answering as time goes on. It takes so long to weed through the garbage, that it's getting to be less and less interesting. Maybe the folks that you mentioned will eventually become bored with this medium, and go back to their chat rooms. One can always hope.
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Dear Rose, I am sure you mean well, but here, no amount of preaching or "screaming" will change anything. This site has fallen into the realm of IM, but more clumsy. The religious bunch preach here all day to whom??? The gay bunch (myself included) puts up with one silly basher who passes itself off as many, and we all put up with the sermons from the religious bunch who tell us daily that we are going to hell. Where they get that idea, I don't have a clue. \ngood luck.
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The amount of friggen judgemental people on this question and answer thing.."Oh, If your not a Christian?"...or "Oh ,Why are gay people?"... or "Oh, Why are black people?" ....My question is how are we ever going to get past all this stupid judgment of people and start embracing each other's differences? I LOVE that my children live in a word of diversety. I am just so sick of people that think that there is only ONE way to believe, be, or act!!! Thanks for the space to let me vent!!!!
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Hi handsome.  I wonder if there are more fanatics now or do we just see more of them because of our association to Q/A.  I live in the bible belt and Texas  has always been a politically conservative state for as long as I can remember.  If anything is true, I see a change towards more liberal thinking down here.  It will not be long, I hope, before more people wise up to the dangers of mixing religion and the law.
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I doubt you will find agreement. Too many new comers come as others go. Only rude people do what you describe, however, I have not found every atheist to be rude--and they are entitled to their opinion, even if it is wasted effort on their part.
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I think it is coming at us from all sides. We have been warned in Rev 3 that the church would become lukewarm and I think that we are attacked on all four sides. Humanism from the atheist, legalism from the liberals and catholics, experiential from emotionalism and compatibility from the ecumenicals. That is why Jesus said if any man will hear My voice and follow me. Religion in our day is a personal commitment, the churches have gone cold.
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Yes, there a few gems stashed in amongst the rubbish on this forum.  It takes researching the profiles of people who give intelligent answers.  People who give good answers usually ask great questions.  Sometimes we have to put up with a lot of irritating nonsense to get through to the good stuff.  I suggest keep a list of people who ask good questions/give good answers and go to their profiles to answer theirs.  Who cares about points.  Let the others wear each other out.
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i totally agree wit u i get really annoyed wit all of those stupid questions they just waste your time & points. u r right they r getting old! i'm more & more tired of it every single day! if only people would give it up already!!!\n\n...!seriously!... \n\np.s. u r not the only 1
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Nope, it's not just you.\n\nFrom what I've seen, the ppl replying that way are the ones who are "holier than thou" and like to quote scriptures as a way to back up their self-righteous behavior.\n\nOpinions are great, until someone tries to trample all over someone else's!\n\nI imagine I'm like many, in that if someone tries to shove their opinion down my throat it usually makes me stand that much more firm in my own belief.  My opinion is my truth and not that of anyone else's.
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Josh, I can understand your reaction and plea. It's sort of like having a bunch of mosquitos buggin' you and you can't get away from them, and you don't have any "RAID". Religious arguments are useless. Many Christians are trying to do God's work for him, rather than just focusing on their own walk with God, and letting God do his own work. They get pushy in their zeal to get everybody "saved". Some of them mean well, but some are really not mentally or spiritually well, and they'll give RELIGIOUS answers to everthing, including NON RELIGIOUS questions. I know that you can delete your own answer to a question, but sometimes I think it would be a good idea if people asking a question could delete answers that offended them. That way the pushy ones (and other people who give offensive answers)would get their answers deleted quite often, and they would soon learn that what they were doing wasn't appreciated and wasn't doing any good. And it would filter the answers for other readers who want to read relevant answers and cast a vote etc. You might want to suggest that to Yahoo. By the way, I am a Christian too.
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*sigh*\n\nand this is why people are looking to alternative atheist theories
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The world is becoming exactly what it says in the Bible.  But, there are still a lot of people who believe in God.  It is just so sad that so many young ones don't.  Just remember, God isn't the one to turn against.  Satan has brought the evil into the world. Satan challenged God's universal sovereignty.
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Believe it or not, it's still a vast improvement over the drivel that was regularly being posted in here as little as two weeks ago. As the novelty continues to wear off, things will get better.\n\nBut, I must agree with you about the apparent level of schooling (or lack thereof) exhibited in a number of the questions. I don't think it is so much an issue of intelligence as it is apathy and a bit of laziness.
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Good point!  I'll check out who to ask about this.\n\nWhere is the "Tell us what you think"?\n\nI found it!  http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/answers/cgi_feedback\n\nI get the other points on here about how people will want further sub-categorization and the concern about general questions.  But there seems to be a lot I've read today wanting Christians out of here.  I'm willing to be moved to another location.  People are still going to be curious and peek over there.  And taunt us.  But they can't complain that we're ruining "their" spirituality section.
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It is becoming way too personal and hateful.  There is no more reason, just labeling, name-calling, and fear-mongering.  The choice of being either "with us or against us" is completely unrealistic.  \n\nPeople need to be allowed individual opinions and those people need to allow those opinions to be challenged by reason and experience.
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That's an excellent question and I have doubts that it will ever entirely disapear, but i think it will continue to decline especially in western culture where it seems as we're getting increasingly secular. I often think of Europe as America's older and more matured brother. They have low rates of church attendance. I think that for better or for worse, america is heading in the same direction. But as i said earlier, i don't think we'll ever see a compete eradication of religion. There are still people who believe the earth is flat, so even when all the evidence is in, there will still be people who belive in the divinity of christ. Oops, couldn't help being a little condescending towards christianity there.