Lying in Worldview on Profiles, How do You Feel about It?

[The Magic Pudding]

Oh yeah? Well, your avatar is a just a glob of gray plato with a face. So, THERE!

Better watch your step, he has friends you know.

[LegendarySandwich]

Oh yeah? Well, your avatar is a just a glob of gray plato with a face. So, THERE!

Better watch your step, he has friends you know.

Oh yeah? Well I have...a sandwich!

[The Magic Pudding]

But...I love unicorns.

 :pop:

Well this guy tells me he's an Aasomdeanist

[Asmodean]

Well this guy tells me he's an Aasomdeanist

NO PEANUTS for it when it dies!  

[phoenixrrt62]

I've noticed that a fair number of Christians come to HAF and put "Freethinker" as their worldview or something other than "Christian" as a worldview.  They tend to start discussions about evolution or the Big Bang theory and pretend to be confused or say they are unable to believe one or the other(or both) because there's no evidence or that all the evidence comes from a conspiracy of scientists who made it all up while ignoring all evidence responders provide.  (And yes, it's seems to be only Christians who do this, I'll explain why it's pretty obvious later.)  How does that make you feel about them?

It makes me feel that, since they are lying on their profile, nothing they say has any value.  It also illustrates a particular category of Christians who believe that they are given a pass on any misbehavior because they believe in Jesus.  "Lying for Jesus" Christians is an annoying subset of Christians.

When Christians put "Christian" or some other word or words (Believer, Jesus Lover, Follower of Christ, Theist, etc.) indicating their actual world view, it automatically gives them my respect.  Obviously they can lose it by saying things but they get it to begin with and they have to be pretty bigoted or rabidly anti-reason to lose it.

I imagine that mainstream Christians are horribly embarrassed or annoyed by "Lying for Jesus" Christians.  Lying to proselytize is not only a negative character indicator, it is against the spirit of what most Christians profess to believe.

So, any of the "Lying for Jesus" set want to chime in?  What is your reasoning behind lying about your beliefs on an atheist forum?  Do you realize that you are behaving like a caricature and no one actually believes you are a freethinker?  Do you realize that very few non-religious humans actually have a problem with evolution, the moon reflecting light instead of creating it, carbon dating, geology, biology, plate tectonics, the empirical method, or the Big Bang theory?  Very few freethinkers would think just like a Christian so, which is more likely, a Christian labeling himself a freethinker or a freethinker who thinks just like a Christian?

Personally, no, I couldn't do that. I belong to a Catholic forum and I'm up front about my belief (or lack thereof). Nor will I try to tell the Catholics that they are wrong. Actually, that's grounds for being banned, if i were to try to talk someone out of being catholic. Oh, and you can't discuss atheism, either. Bizarre, huh?  

One person on the forum thought I was deceiving them because I have a liberal mindset, and while there's no place on your id to SAY you are liberal, I made some pretty OBVIOUS liberal comments and SAID I was a liberal, and he went on to say I was deceiving them (at the time I had my id as agnostic...which, actually, is more accurate-I still question-that's why I am THERE, for goodness sake)...so, to make that asshat happy, I changed it to atheist. Actually, he did me a favor. I think he's right, I'm leaning more and more toward the atheist mindset every day.