Posted on 06/22/2012 8:48:35 AM PDT by Religion Moderator
Who has time for negativity? Hostility is bad for the blood pressure and digestion.
Celebrate freedom, while we have it, by doing something good for your neighbor and sharing the love of God.
(general comments, not directed at you personally ;-).
Thanks for the explanation. It makes everything very clear.
I made the mistake a year or so ago of not paying attention and became too argumentative on a Religion thread until one of the posters I was arguing with pointed out the distinction to me.
I’ve since wised up. :)
Anyway, thanks for posting this. In this political season, it’s an important distinction for FR posters to be aware of.
So is my chair right now.
Well, kick the girl off of your lap, then. /sarc>
Cheers!
What about this situation:
Mr. Z is known claim no label at all regarding his own religion, but has a habit of critiquing other religions .
Mr. Z replies to Mr. X (an adherent of Religion X) by posting “Religion X sucks canal water” or “Religion X is of the devil” or “Religion X is filled with malingerers and criminals” or “People of Religion X love sin” or some other derogatory remark.
Mr. X replies to Mr. Z “Your religion also sucks canal water” (etc.)
_________
Please explain how the RF rules apply to that scenario.
The adherent of Religion X then RESP
What about this situation:
Mr. Z is known claim no label at all regarding his own religion, but has a habit of critiquing other religions .
Mr. Z replies to Mr. X (an adherent of Religion X) by posting “Religion X sucks canal water” or “Religion X is of the devil” or “Religion X is filled with malingerers and criminals” or “People of Religion X love sin” or some other derogatory remark.
Mr. X replies to Mr. Z “Your religion also sucks canal water” (etc.)
_________
Please explain how the RF rules apply to that scenario.
>>Some Freepers have changed their religious beliefs because of the contentious religious debate on Free Republic. <<
I believe this is untrue and a fairy story that some person made up to continue the debates on FR. If they did, they were not very strong in the first place and simple information,rather than the “mob” would have changed their minds.
As a person who worked many years of Psych, I can tell you that debate in addictive, being part of a mob is addictive and belittling others (even in backhanded ways) to make one’s self feel good is actually a diagnosable disorder.
The debates on the Religion Forums are filled with projection and mob mentality. Many posters who are allowed to continue debating through different font, cut and pastes and backhanded insults need help. An intellectual discussion is good. The mob ganging up IS NOT. Those threads where no one debates are actually MORE informative than the long infights that are posted on other websites to point out our bigotry. Some of the best FReepers I’ve known in my 10 years have been chased off because of these mobfests. But it’s apparently what the Mods want.
My opinion.
Is Mr.Z Catholic or Mormon? Is he talking about Catholics or Mormons? If he is not Catholic or Mormon and he is posting threads about Catholics or Mormons then I have been told it is PART of his religion to talk that way. (And have asked for the denomination that encourages it, but have yet to be told)
In that scenario if Mr. X is Catholic or Mormon?
Smackdonw or Zot
No, Ma'am!
We STILL are the only church on earth that operates the way JESUS intended!
Yes to each question.
So; you do NOT want to hear about things that just %#$%#@ folks off?
Come to the Wesleyans!
We have the original doctrine still intact (more or less - hee hee)
And I fear as Rehoboam was to Jeroboam, too!
AMEN!
(Even when it was a MORMOphilic one!)
Oh YEAH?
You should see my MIRROR!
Indeed it is!
I'll bet not very loudly!
I'll bet he was a NEW mormon convert that had been a nominal, lacking in KNOWLEDGE 'christian'; or a 'mormon' soon to be out of the yawning maw of MORMONism.
It IS great to be part of the Church whose members eats the very flesh and blood of Jesus Christ every day, and whose members confess their sins and receive absolution from a priest with apostolic authority, and whose members have the assurance that the successor of Peter still holds the keys.
While you are at it; can you get them (John?) to add the post number a person is replying from when using the PRIVATE REPLY tab?
It is really frustraing to get a private reply from someone and not have a CLUE as to which post number they are replying!
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