Well, seeing as this discussion group dates back to March, I believe that Jim is aware of us! I think he likes having us do this here for a few reasons: it keeps much of the religious discussion in one place, and we do a pretty good job of keeping the discussion civil and policing those who get out of line.
In terms of justifying religious debate on a political activism site, I suggest you read the quote from John Adams at the top of the thread. A desire for political reform entails some idea of what you want to reform things to. Religion is the foundation for our culture, and discussion of religion and philosophy are part of how we as a nation decide what sort of country we are going to become.
Jim has stated on a few occasions that the long term goal is to set up multiple forums with varying topics, so that the main forum will remain hard news and political issues. When this does finally happen, I expect we'll migrate over to one of the new FR forums. In the meantime, our presence here is certainly no more burdensome on the server than the Freeoples (former L.dotters), Pray For Bush, The Guild, and other ongoing discussion groups. And we hardly talk about cheese at all here! ;o)
Leave it to a Packer fan to get us all wound up about cheese again.
Did someone say CHEESE, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM GOOD. :)
BigMack