I appreciate your perspective.
I think you make some good points.
Personally, it is bothersome to disturbing when the boundaries of the Caucus designation are
gamed destructively, glibly etc.
HOWEVER,
I FIND that generally, the RM does a masterful job with all the special categories that Holy Spirit has led him to foster and establish on FR.
There are perverse motivations and actions on the part of some within any large group of
humans
on the planet.
And sometimes, that seems to be a worse phenomenon within large diverse RELIGIOUS groups.
And one (or more) reference groups hereon is PARTICULARLY perverse and bad at such gamey-ness.
HOWEVER, regardless, the RM is usually quickly and certainly with astute sharpness, on top of all such gamey-ness.
It doesn’t bother me when the RM chooses wisdom or even simply a ‘not worth the bother’ response to some such gamey-ness.
I do NOT WISH to bother the RM by wailing needlessly about technicalities and petty details.
The Caucus designation is GENERALLY EXTREMELY WELL RAN.
WE ALL
NEED, AT LEAST OCCASIONALLY, the caucus designation for a safe, warm, familiar setting to have an unperturbed home reference group discussion in. PRAISE GOD, it’s now available on FR. It didn’t used to be.
I wish to support the RM in all their efforts—sometimes—in this case—by shaking my head and refusing to join the
‘yeah, but’s’
insisting on a more RELIGIOUS, obsessive policing of the boundaries of the caucus designation. There’d be no end of such prissy finger pointing.
The RELIGION FORUM has an inherent, chronic infection of prissy finger pointing AT BEST, all the time anyway.
WHO NEEDS ANOTHER CATEGORY OF THAT!
imho, the RM does an excellent job of protecting the basic sanctity of the peaceableness, safety, warm fuzziness of the caucus category for those who set up such a thread.
MORE POWER TO HIM. LONG LIVE THE RM!
I find his judgments in such regrds usually anointed and Spirit-led.
If he occasionally APPEARS human and arbitrary—reflection usually bears out that he wasn’t—he was just labeled so by some special case of at least momentary prissiness.
Good points and I agree with almost all of them. And I’m envious not one bit for the job of the RM.
But the salient point I’m trying to make has less to do with the performance of the RM than it does with being consistent with our principles. We all here are outspoken about the violations from the Left on the rule of law. Our words become meaningless if while decrying the violations of someone else we at the same time engage in the same behavior.
How can we win this war if we can’t even follow our own principles?
Thank you.