Uh...I, to the best of my recollection, never asked for this topic to be placed “under the ban,” though I probably would be less than saddened if it were. I merely sought the rationale for posting a 7 year-old article about such an inherently divisive topic, and further questioned the citation - in order to create a juxtaposition of sorts - of five other threads, which at least were current-events related when they were first posted some years ago.
As for questioning motives, well, what is one to think when a 7 year-old article is posted that is thoroughly detached from any issues in current news, the movies, etc.? I merely asked for an explanation. How far back does an article have to go, and how unnecessarily incendiary does it have to be, before it should be clear to a potential poster that the potential gains are far outweighed by the losses incurred on the Religion Forum? Consider that many seekers and fence-sitters are on this site, and the inter-religious sniping they see here is most unseemly. We don’t do very well in this regard even in legitimate areas of contention; the quality of debate often (on both sides of an issue) quickly turns to mud slinging and “Yeah, well so are you!” types of “discourse.” How much worse, in the aforementioned seekers’ eyes, are threads that clearly are out to serve no good purpose? Doesn’t this sort of thing make us ALL look bad?
You are correct. I have mistaken you for somebody else and I apologize for that. I was following too many threads/conversations yesterday for my poor mind and got confused. I promise to do better in the future.
Again, sorry for my confusion.