Moderators, Please Clarify What This Forum Is About

[ChristianCritic]

Unlike other faith community forums, there are no statements of belief or general descriptions. All we have are "bridge builders" and "moderate Christians" and those are ambiguous and left undefined. Also, there is a link to the original post requesting the forum but the link has long since expired. There are as many people asking questions or discussing what the forum is about as there are people discussing other issues. Bridge building between what? Between Christians and non-Christians, between liberal and conservative Christians, between anyone? Moderate what? Moderate in tone, moderate as in religiously or politically moderate? I personally feel that if you do come up with a definition, that the forum shouldn't just be about civility and nothing else (especially because most of the forums require civility anyway!) My suggestion is under the "my definition of moderate" post but it's just a suggestion, and in any event, any definition is better than no definition!

 

[Redheadedstepchild]

The moderate forum exists for those who do not feel they fall neatly under the category of liberal or conservative, though there are those who post both here and either WWMC or CC. That's it. No FSGs. It's felt that the site wide rules are sufficient.

 

[ChristianCritic]

The moderate forum exists for those who do not feel they fall neatly under the category of liberal or conservative, though there are those who post both here and either WWMC or CC. That's it. No FSGs. It's felt that the site wide rules are sufficient.

Thanks for the clarification and sounds good to me!!

 

[Izdaari Eristikon]

The moderate forum exists for those who do not feel they fall neatly under the category of liberal or conservative, though there are those who post both here and either WWMC or CC. That's it. No FSGs. It's felt that the site wide rules are sufficient.

Yep, that was pretty much the thinking when we requested it.

I'm mostly (but not entirely) conservative in theology, but moderate on social issues and libertarian in politics. I can fit in passably well in a number of forums, but I wanted a place where I could just be myself.

 

[LovebirdsFlying]

I like the not squaring off, the noted absence of an us-against-them way of thinking. Here, all opinions and views are valid, even those that are disagreed with. There is no anti-anything sentiment.