If you have a gripe about the contents of my atheism pages, please read this first before composing your message. This is also a mini-FAQ with links to relevant articles, as I seem to get a lot of the same questions and comments. Yours may already have been dealt with, so please check here first. (I'm sorry if all this seems a bit draconian, but I used to be inundated with emails containing all these sorts of things, each writer believing he or she was the first person ever to think of it.)

• Don't preach.
• Don't threaten me with HELLFIRE! If I believed in Hell, maybe I'd be faintly concerned...
• Don't tell me what atheism is or is not. Read the Intro page.
• "Atheism is a religion or faith" - Click here
• Disagreeing with your opinion is not the same as hating it or you. If you're going to ask why my webpage is "so filled with hatred and venom", please specify the article in particular that has pushed your buttons.
• I've heard Pascal's Wager a million times (variations on "It's better to believe in God and gain everything, than to disbelieve and lose everything."). Click here for my response.
• Don't tell me what I believe. "Why are you an atheist?" - click here.
• "Why did you create this website?" or "Why do you bother?" - click here.
• "I'll pray for you." - click here and here, or see the list of people already praying for me here. =)
• Don't tell me "Ah, but those people aren't real Christians, not like the members of my church" because somewhere there will be someone saying the exact same thing about you.
• "Evolution is only a theory, why do you call it a fact?" - read my article, and also see Evolution For Beginners
• If you have any questions about evolution/creation, Noah's Flood, why not read the documents at the Talk Origins archive first? They go into a lot more technical detail about genetics and speciation etc. than I can, and also deal with the most common misconceptions about the theory of evolution.
• Don't accuse me of having a closed mind if I dismiss your arguments. I've probably heard it a hundred times already, and hearing the same tired old stuff again isn't going to make it any more valid. If you actually have anything new and interesting to say, I'll listen.
• Don't simply quote from your Holy Book without adding anything of your own.
• Don't quote Psalms 14:1 at me without first referring to Matthew 5:22.
• Don't say "God loves/believes in you, even if you don't love/believe in Him" - that old chestnut is getting a bit boring now.
• My address has "demon" in it because that is the name of my ISP - Demon Internet. It really isn't anything sinister (as some people seem to think).
• If you haven't already done so, you might consider reading Constructing A Logical Argument and Common Arguments.
• I reserve the right to post your message on my feedback page if I feel other readers will find it interesting. I will not include your email address, to prevent you receiving unsolicited emails either from people who read it or junk-mail robots.
• Verbal abuse and offensive language are unlikely to impress me, and will be reported to your Internet Service Provider's abuse team. This often results in them terminating the offender's account.
• Don't use words like "u", "uu", "ure", "2" instead of "you", "you" and "your" and "to". It doesn't make you look cool - it makes you look as if you can't spell simple words, and also makes your email seem not worth reading. If you speak English, write English.
• Failure to comply with the above rules is likely to ensure that your mail is either ignored or treated as it deserves. Also, you will be Cursed with having a small onion fall on your head. And nobody wants that.

In other words, don't send me something like this parody (thanks to Tim Bedding).

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