There are a lot of religious folk in just about every writing forum on the net. I'm afraid to make someone religious a bad guy in a story -- and that means I can't write truthfully at times and that means I may as well shut up.
I've browsed a couple of atheist websites and found the only topic that unites their denizens is something like "all religious people are really dumb."
If the conversation could get off this one track, it might be interesting. I like considering that religious and scientific impulses are related to story-telling's root cause. Of the three related books to come out recently, I like Dennett over Dawkins and Harris.
I agree that "other" does not work as a forum heading, but "non-religious" might; even better is "decline to state."
Yes, I would really like to see AW and other writers' forums include Decline To State as a sub-forum in the religious area. (Even the census bureau offers this choice now, I think.)
And hopefully the forum's rules would make it clear that preaching is not welcome. Moderating might be quite a challenge, since some missionaries would make a point of making a point at every opportunity.
I would also enjoy a second philosophical forum, especially if it got into existentialism, po mo, varieties of lit theory, roots of symbolism and myth, etc. It might be called the Theory Forum.
