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To: D-fendr; 1000 silverlings; wmfights; HarleyD; Gamecock; Quix; P-Marlowe; xzins; blue-duncan; ...
I don't believe I've seen anyone who was making a real effort at basic respect and courtesy be asked to stop talking to someone.

You have publicly asked me not to post to you, so I can presume you are including me among those who do not post with "respect and courtesy."

Please provide any post of mine to you wherein I spoke to you on a disrespectful and discourteous personal level.

If you can't provide one, please retract your personally offensive statement.

As the Religion Moderator has repeatedly instructed, we may criticize the belief but not the believer.

8,664 posted on 02/02/2007 4:22:45 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
As the Religion Moderator has repeatedly instructed, we may criticize the belief but not the believer.

These are your words, directed at me:
There you go again, bringing false witness. And what was the false witness that you accused me of bearing? I indirectly suggested that you might be calling my veracity into question, after you wrote something like "...since Mad Dawg says it, it must be so, lol."

I know I'm not the one to whom you addressed your complaint about a "personally offensive statement" but it's easy to find examples of your attacking people personally.

8,668 posted on 02/02/2007 4:44:15 PM PST by Mad Dawg ("It's our humility which makes us great." -- Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; All

The reason I gave you was different, there's no value in reviewing it, other than, basically, I thought it best for me and for you and for the others on the forum.

We all need to make a special effort here to be civil and respectful. It's difficult to discuss anything of import on this medium and religion is the toughest. I include myself in this. Internet forums are particularly prone to misunderstandings and outbursts, adding religion to the mix makes it even more volatile.

If things get too angry, let's try to back off from each other.

I know we all value these discussions and what we learn from them. We need to try to chill it for a bit, or this thread is headed for the pulled column.


8,673 posted on 02/02/2007 5:07:45 PM PST by D-fendr
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