Hello Skeptisma. Welcome to this friendly meeting place with freethinkers who recognise that gods and religions are deceptions used to control vulnerable superstitious people, including defenceless children; and how tragic and inexcusable it is that women and minorities have been oppressed these last two thousand years and even longer.

Terry Meaden
founder of the busy group "ORIGINS: Universe, Life, Earth, Humans, Religion, Evolution, Darwin..." with its 300 discussion topics.
We invite you to join us and 1700 others.
http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/originsuniverselifehumankindanddarwin

Skeptisma, I’m not the official welcome wagon, but I do spend a lot of time here, so I’ll take the liberty to welcome you to the site.

I've started ten groups here, so please join any you think might interest you:

FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO
THE KNIFE & FORK
HUMANE ATHEISTS
CONSUMER ETHICS
A TRICK OF THE EYE
ODDITORIUM
ARS POETICA
LOVERS OF SHAKESPEARE
QUOTH THE RAVEN
LINGUAPHILES & SESQUIPEDALIANS

I am also a volunteer moderator for Amnesty International Atheists, Sound Advice, and Eco-Logical: A Group for Environmentalists—so again, please join if they interest you.

The unspoken preference for responding to the comments of another member tend to be that you copy, paste, and italicize the text to which you are referring, and then write your response below that. That way everyone knows to whom or what you are referring. Welcome aboard. I hope you enjoy it here.