Posted by Phil on December 29, 2002, at 13:57:42
In reply to Re: Court-ordered discussion » Lou Pilder, posted by Mitchell on December 29, 2002, at 12:43:20
My opinion, Dr. Bob is honest and doing the best he can to keep the board from turning into a screaming, nightmare of conflicting veiws. You know Mitchell, like the Southern Baptist Convention.
We could make it a board with no cross-posting. In others words, I can tell my story of how unicorns flew me out of a burning building to safety. Now I will embrace Unicornyism. As part of my faith I have to tell others to believe it too or they burn in hell.Next poster says thank you, then tells about their religion, Satanism.
They finish, an Omish runaway tells of his nightmare.
Thank you..now a Christian says his piece which, in all likelihood, is going to make another Christian furious because their faith doesn't mesh. Same Bible. Rules are clear.
More people are killed for their beliefs,you know, and I like this-it's a "Holy War".
So, with that in mind, I think the faith board has problems. Just like every religion, some more than others, has WAY bigger problems than a faith board.
I think I've stumbled across my point. If religion and church's could get their message out to 85% of their congregation that are there for show, the faith board could work.
Blame Dr Bob or UC being Baptist. Thank you, you illustrated my point. It gets nasty fast in regards to religion. That's why he has to make the judgements he makes. If you said that on the religion board, several posters might get unhappy. Then another finger pointing Holy War breaks out.
We could get an independent moderator...oh, Jewish, we'll tell him we'll get back to him. Nation of Islam. Nope. Catholic, bad press.
Baptist, what flavor? Church of Christ, what, no music?We all have some sort of 'mental illness' here. Despite our best efforts, almost all of us fall short of the mark and life can be very unpleasant. The last thing we need is controversy over faith.
Maybe I'm still missing your point, I don't know.
Carry on.
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