Well, it doesnt do a lot to make members of our church feel welcome here is my point. I still believe in the conservative movement even if I disagree with some things I may see on the site, but if I was on the fence I wouldnt come back. Of course, there are only over 12 million members world wide, so its not like a big group of people or anything.
“Well, it doesnt do a lot to make members of our church feel welcome here is my point.”
Well, it doesn’t do a lot to make members of the Catholic Church feel welcome here when folks criticize our theology.
But, this is the RELIGION Forum. If you can’t take a fair critique of your religious beliefs, then go hang out in the other parts of Free Republic.
Mind you, I’m dead set against folks mocking other folks’ religion, or the members of other religions. I’m dead set against nastiness, name-calling, refraining from giving the benefit of the doubt, ascribing evil motives.
There were folks who used to be here at Free Republic who used to mercilessly mock the LDS, and that which LDS folks hold holy. They were banned, and rightly so, even if I considered some of them friends. There are others here who mercilessly mock Catholicism and what we Catholics hold holy. These, typically, haven't been banned, and in my own opinion, that doesn't reflect well on the moderation of this forum. Posters like that very well should be banned, just as those who mocked the LDS were banned.
But good, honest presentation and debate of religious differences are part of what the Religion Forum is about.
“I still believe in the conservative movement even if I disagree with some things I may see on the site, but if I was on the fence I wouldnt come back.”
Then perhaps you would be someone insufficiently thick-skinned to be a conservative. After all, we receive far worse in the lamestream media every day.
“Of course, there are only over 12 million members world wide, so its not like a big group of people or anything.”
From my Catholic perspective, no, it doesn’t seem to be a big group of people at all.
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