You can get anything you want at the Patheos Restaurant.

[MineralMan]

There are often links in the Religion Group to http://www.patheos.com/

Depending on who posts those links, the content can be pro or anti-religion. It's a vast blog, with points of view all over the spectrum. If you've never been there, I encourage you to click the link and spend a bit of time exploring the range of points of view that are published there.

If you post in this group, you can probably find bloggers who are writing just about what you want to say, more or less. Who are those bloggers? Well, they're a mixed bag. It's worth checking to see who wrote the blog you're about to quote from, I think. Not everyone there is a reliable poster, but everyone there certainly has an opinion.

If you've never been there, you might think that it's all the sort of thing that gets posted here in defense of religion. Not so. There's plenty of other opinions on display at Patheos.

[Grasswire2]

1. except Alice nt

[mr_lebowski]

3. HAH!

[MineralMan]

5. LOL!

[mr_lebowski]

2. Excepting Patheos?

[TwistOneUp]

4. Plenty of ads, too.

And lots of page reformatting. When you're trying to read.

If sites would sell NoAd subscriptions, I'd read a lot more. I'm trying to read a page and the text is bouncing around like it's on a trampoline. NoThankYou.

[MineralMan]

6. Well, a Site's Gotta Live, You Know...

I generally wait for its pages to quit bouncing before beginning to read. They do settle down, eventually.

They seem to have a problem with page design and rendering. There's probably a solution, but no budget to make the necessary changes.

[TwistOneUp]

7. And i understand that, though none of my sites run ads.

Despite the ads on WaPo and the NYT, I subscribe to both of those.

I'm not against ads, I'm against poorly designed websites that are difficult to read.

[MineralMan]

8. I dislike both the WaPo and NYT sites for their paywalls.

I'm OK with seeing ads on sites that are useful to me. I refuse, however, to visit bloggish sites that display nothing but over-hyped clickbait ads.

If a place has information that is useful to me, I'll wait until it settles down so I can read the content. It's not the best UX in the world there at Patheos, by any means, but it's really just a second or two until everything is loaded. Of course, that depends on the latency time for advertising content hosted elsewhere. Once in a while, fetching that content slows the process.

There's a way to fix that, of course, but it's apparently not a high priority there.

Really, the only problem is with the banner ads under the link labels. Since Patheos doesn't have a fixed size for those ads, it can't block out that space until the ad is fetched. So, the page content bounces until the ad is fetched and rendered at its own size. All they'd have to do to fix that would be to standardize the image size for all banner ads. then, they could create the space and lock the display to prevent the bounciness. It's all about page rendering. Oh, well...

[Lordquinton]

9. There are some sites that get posted here

that are solely dedicated to pro-religion content.

These are obviously held up as the extremes of both ends.

[Permanut]

10. Great resource, MineralMan..

Thanks for the tip.

[MineralMan]

11. Yes. It can be used by anyone

for any purpose. That's a rare quality.