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Was that question intended to be serious?Ken said:I am looking forward to the reopening, especially since any serious question posted in the GA section is immediately ridiculed by atheists, see, for instance,
http://www.christianforums.com/t86444
I don't see why that would have gone into IDD anyways.Ken said:I am looking forward to the reopening, especially since any serious question posted in the GA section is immediately ridiculed by atheists, see, for instance,
http://www.christianforums.com/t86444
nyj said:Since the shock of IDD's closure has subsided, it appears, at least to me, that the tension levels at CF have reduced significantly. Things are, at least from my perspective, peaceful in the Congregation Fora. Why we would want to re-open IDD, and potentially allow the tension to build once again is beyond me. Heavily moderated or not heavily moderated, the fact that tensions have subsided without the presence of IDD (and I'd be willing tobet the number of reports have decreased as well) is a good enough indicator that IDD simply isn't needed here at Christian Forums.
Maybe you should try to remember why we have Christian Forumslambslove said:I think that no matter what is done to moderate the IDD forum, there will always be fights because the theology and doctrine of the catholic-based denominations is so different from the non-catholic-based denoms that the two can NEVER be reconciled. It's like expecting people who only eat liver to sit down to a nice meal with vegans. The two cannot be reconciled, and as the vegans and the liver-eaters get hungrier and hungrier for something that nourishes either of them, they will fight, no matter what they have in common and no matter how committed they are to keeping the peace.
Likewise, IDD nourishes neither group, it only acts as a torture device to remind them both how hungry they are for the spiritual nourishment of a good discussion and fellowship with like-minded Believers, and no matter what there is in common between the two groups, since neither is being satisfied spiritually, the hunger and anger will flare up again and again.
As CF tries harder and harder to accomodate everyone, it nourishes no one, like a restaurant that tries to serve all eaters without offending any other groups sensibilities. You can't have a vegan/Atkins/South Beach/kosher/Chinese/low fat restaurant. CF is trying to have a Protestant/Catholic/Orthodox/pagan/seeker/atheist/non-demoninational/agnostic website, and THAT'S what is causing all the problems, not the posters. We're all just trying to be true to our faiths, which are mutally incompatible, like the vegan and the carnivore.
Dawn Marie,Dawn Marie said:I think you're wrong. It's nothing like that. At least, it shouldn't be...
We're not that different. You're making it sound like Catholics and Protestants have nothing in common - they do. Christianity.
If you can't handle talking to people who don't believe exactly as you do, then ...
I think we have CF so Christians can talk to each other, not so they can emotionally rape each other. But that doesn't happen around here. That's why they had to close IDD, remember? And that happened long AFTER I stopped posting at CF, so don't blame me alone... The catholics would do as well to remember it as the non-catholics.ej said:Maybe you should try to remember why we have Christian Forums
Then I'm sure you'd say the opposite... or something more along the lines of Miss Shelb's and Dawn Marie's thoughts.
lambslove said:I think we have CF so Christians can talk to each other, not so they can emotionally rape each other. But that doesn't happen around here. That's why they had to close IDD, remember? And that happened long AFTER I stopped posting at CF, so don't blame me alone... The catholics would do as well to remember it as the non-catholics.
That's why I started posting here in the first place - it's a place where we remember what we have in common.Christian Forums is a free, non-profit and non-denominational Christian forum community uniting all Christians as one body.
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