A place for non-Christians to inquire in TAW?

[Orthodox Andrew]

I'm not sure. If not, I think this idea may work.

 

[Orthodox Andrew]

I'm going to send a message to TAW's mods right now about it.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

I wonder how tightly the mods in Outreach would keep a thread asked to a certain group. I noticed a thread "Questions for Catholics" and thought it funny that the first 2 answers were by a Methodist and a Lutheran. Then they continued to politely refute the answers given by the Catholic posters even after a mod posted that it wasn't permitted.

Erwin did say that a thread could be started like this but it doesn't seem to work very well in practice.

 

[Llauralin]

*Frowns*

I must admit, I don't really like the new links as a substitute for a feal subforum at all. In Questions by Non-christians, it's just as much a free-for-all as far as confusing people to death as it is in GT imho.

 

[Maximus]

I would support such a place as long as there were slightly stiffened rules as to debating, especially from the TAW end. There seems to be quite a few people in TAW anymore who like to turn ordinary conversations into un-christian debates and mud slinging fests. This would do no good for the non-Orthodox/non-christians who came into TAW to explore Orthodoxy. I really think charity needs to be the law of the land, and unfortunately right now it is lacking.

You have my vote: "yes".

There are also a number of people here who like to exaggerate and who characterize any disagreement - even relatively polite, respectful ones - in negative terms. There are even a few here whose idea of charity is reporting other TAW members (and announcing it publicly, in posts), even when no violations of the rules have occurred, simply because they are angry.

Imagine that!

I've never seen any "mudslinging" here ("mudslinging" being slang for name-calling, i.e., ad hominem attacks).

Personally, I am against the introduction of a subforum for non-Christians to ask questions about Orthodoxy.

I think it would be opening a can of worms we really don't want opened here.

When I was an atheist I liked eating Christians for lunch (metaphorically speaking). There are many other atheists out there who are the same way, and there are many members here who would not be able to avoid being eaten alive.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

There are also a number of people here who like to exaggerate and who characterize any disagreement - even relatively polite, respectful ones - in negative terms. There are even a few here whose idea of charity is reporting other TAW members (and announcing it publicly, in posts), even when no violations of the rules have occurred, simply because they are angry.

Imagine that!

I've never seen any "mudslinging" here ("mudslinging" being slang for name-calling, i.e., ad hominem attacks).

Personally, I am against the introduction of a subforum for non-Christians to ask questions about Orthodoxy.

I think it would be opening a can of worms we really don't want opened here.

When I was an atheist I liked eating Christians for lunch (metaphorically speaking). There are many other atheists out there who are the same way, and there are many members here who would not be able to avoid being eaten alive.

The whole point of the subforum being for non-Christians to ask questions and since the congregational rules would still apply there would be no lunching on Christians allowed.

 

[Maximus]

The whole point of the subforum being for non-Christians to ask questions and since the congregational rules would still apply there would be no lunching on Christians allowed.

I think a lot of unauthorized munching would occur, followed by deletions of posts, warnings issued, and, finally, the virtual death of the subforum.

But that is just my opinion.

(Looks around for some mud to sling.)