"life-long" atheist, but new member of this from.

[adey67]

Welcome, Seth is certainly a talented media presenter but I'm guessing you're not aware of what he did to us and how he did it, it wasn't pretty.

I know he clearly shut the forums down, but I don't know why or how? What exactly happened?

I wasn't active on there for a long while before they got shutdown anyways.

Also, my name on TTA was also Twiggy. At that point in time I had Marilyn Monroe as my profile picture.

I posted a bit about Satanism, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, and some other things.

Basically right out of the blue he decided to shut the forum, he wanted to do it immediately but the admins begged him to give us some time which he (apparently reluctantly) did do. The day of the closure we were supposed to have up to midnight GMT before we were switched off but some hours before that he had a hissy fit and pulled the plug early, I suspect because he didn't like some of the things we wrote about him. He never gave a compelling reason for the closure just some guff about how it didn't fit his new business model, this all happened shortly after he became a full time atheist activist so I guess the forum was either costing too much or he got no benefits from it or maybe both.  The way he went about it was not nice and extremely dismissive, he didn't even have the decency to make a post to the forum himself he hid behind the administrator he also refused to let us keep any archives of the learning materials some members who were talented scholars had painstakingly gathered and put together and he's a massive hypocrite because he projects this image on his podcasts and lectures of being this folksy, benign "aww shucks" midwestern guy who frequently talked about his followers being a community and like family but the reality is he's a hard nosed businessman who certainly had no problems or qualms about throwing us under the bus. Anyway we survived and now we're here. The last laugh was on him though because his Google rating plummeted following the closure, he forgot to take into account just how much internet traffic the forum was sending his way.