[malakhi]

Bump for your vote.

I vote yes.

[RnMomof7]

Too many Catagories IMHO Ange ..how many does the main board have??

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

If Unitarian is included as "Mainline Protestant", I vote NO. Unitarianism is about as "protestant christian" as Orthodox Judaism, and for much the same reason!!

Unitarian should be placed in "Other Christian" at best, and that is a MAJOR stretch (but, you put LDS there, so maybe it's a big enough tent). They really should be placed in "other Non-Christian" or... perhaps most accurately... "Judaism"!!

For are they not, essentially, Moral-Law-Noachides who deny the divinity of Christ?

[ppaul]

Isn't it amazing?
We have "freedom in Christ" and yet we want to pidgeon-hole everyone into little groups.
Forget it.
Let's keep the discussion wide open and not broken down into an anal-retentive nightmare.

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[monkeyshine]

Bump, I vote yes with reservations. Happy pesach (don't forget to slouch) and gut shabbos.

[Matchett-PI]

I vote no as it stands. I appreciate your selfless work in this thankless effort, however.

[Wordsmith]

Yes. And it sounds like we may need to explain that this is just a categorization scheme, and that all posted threads will still show up on the "Religion Forum" page.

[AppyPappy]

Atheism is not a religion. I don't get the point. Besides that, yes.

[Notwithstanding]

These are great general index terms. Should make searching very easy.

There is ZERO chance of any ghetto since the label is for information purposes only and FReepers are always free to join in any thread regardless of its "topic".

[Gophack]

Thank you for all your hard work.

I will vote YES for this list, though reading through the threads I still hold to my original comments the other day that we shouldn't have a denomination section at all!

God bless.

[Preech1]

Looks good to me...shalom chaverim.

[winstonchurchill]

Count me as a "yes".

[RnMomof7]

I have one questions Ange if I say I am a dog..does that make me one? Or would I have to pass the four legs ,long ears panting test..or is saying so enough?

That is why I am against the church classification..you are labeling people that do not accept the basic beliefs of the creed as Christians just cause they say so

Why not just have people type their religion in the key word if it is important to the subject..

[DittoJed2]

Need to add New Age in somewhere (Eastern or other non-Christian) and maybe an etc., after Eastern. And, now that I'm thinking about Baptist, there are so many types of Baptists. Some are not sola scripture or inerrantists. Some have gone the way of the liberal mainline churches. I'd almost rather see us as "Other Christian" or take "Mainline" off of Protestant and put us under Protestant (though you will have a fight on that one since some do not consider us protestants at all), or give us a category all our own "The Baptists". The latter is what another website on Church history chose to do. Or, you could say "Mainline denominations" and "Non-mainline denominations".

[DittoJed2]

A qualified yes vote. I too would like to see the Unitarians moved to other Christian and would like to see other Christian changed to just "Other". That would catch Christian and non-Christian groups that don't neatly fit into other categories and avoid the argument over whether or not the group is Christian (at least in the category listing- you'll get plenty of arguments in the threads themselves).

[MarMema]

I vote yes. Thanks for your hard work.

[ppaul]

BTW: Thanks for what appears to be a labor of love on your part.

[LoneGreenEyeshade]

I really like the list. You did a great job. I'm sure refinement will need to be done as we gain experience, but my vote is definitely yes.

Thanks for all your efforts. God's eyes are upon you and the good seed sown.

LOL,LGE

[Seti 1]

Well, I went through all this because I thought it might be worthwhile. I was wrong. This thread is garbage.

[saradippity]

Hi Angelo, Its me sara---I stopped in to see what was going on in the new religious forum. I had voted and left it in your hands because you are quite bright,I have noted. I figured you would take the vote tweak things around a little, get started and then make adjustments based on the experiences you were encountering. Imagine my surprise to see Thread three with over 500 responses and as far as I could tell none of the last 200 have anything to do with the subject at hand. What's going on?

Oh,I bet I know.The very same thing that has caused some very valuable exchanges specific to certain issues to be removed. I was so furious that I thought thoughts that were so nasty I doubted my own commitment to the Trinitarian God. Did a group of busy bodies insinuate themselves in discussions and slyly change the topic to one of their liking?

I've been meandering around the cyber world trying to find people of like mind,who see the current crisis in the Church as an oppurtunity to cleanse it so that it will conform itself with the plan of the Father to bring all of His creation back home. For that purpose He sent His Son who established a visible Church to assure the gates of Heaven would be opened to all who sought Him.

And,who also see the timing of the crisis as a work of Divine Providence coinciding perfectly with another grand attempt of men to overthrow God and set up a kingdom where "important elite men"could take the reins and reign over all of us poor dummies. It has long been a tenet of profound thinkers that people who give their allegience to God could not be enslaved.Consequently plans to enslave men were often thwarted by those who were "true believers". Well,the new "elite" came up against the same brick wall that met their predessesors in past attempts. Recognizing that the Church could not be destroyed from without especially after WWI they been infiltrating the largest and most dangerous foe,the Roman Catholic Church. Their earlier groundwork has come to fruition and all of the corruption and perversion has come to light. This is good.

Now we who believe God put each of us here for a purpose need to work on,how what at first sight,appears to be a death blow can be turned into a new life for Christianity and Western Civilization.I really think that those who so cavalierly break into a thread and bestow their opinions which are off point need to set up their own thread. They could call it "Aren't Catholics Sinners",or whatever they want just don't disrupt serious discussions by people who have a different world view than they do and are trying to prevent a take over by folks who don't like us and will swat them off like flies once they destroy us. If they thought we were interested and searching for salvation that would be different but that is not their objective. Instead they just make many of us aghast at their rudeness and lack of common courtesy.

The foregoing is only my opinion based on observing the world God made. I certainly hope the people who will monitor the thread will prohibit disrupting, without it being necessary to kill the thread.It is hard to wade through their babble to get to the substance. Thanks Angelo,I don't envy you. Ugh,I've tried to deal with 5 points under one subject<I hope you can untangle some of this.Bottom line.FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET RID OF DISRUPTORS WITHOUT KILLING THREADS BUT GET RID OF THESE RUDE,OBNOXIOUS DISRUPTORS.