[Religion Moderator]

Clearly the "open" threads are more popular - people love a train wreck, if it bleeds it leads, and many are drawn like moths to a flame, putting more blood in the water, attracting more sharks and so it spirals. (How about that for mixing metaphors?)

But by weight - word count plus image size, sheer bandwidth - I'm confident in my original assertion that the caucus, devotional and prayer threads own more 'real estate' on the Religion Forum.

Imagine how short the "open" threads would be if the thin-skinned posters actually ignored them.

[delacoert]

[greyfoxx39]

Clearly the "open" threads are more popular - people love a train wreck, if it bleeds it leads, and many are drawn like moths to a flame, putting more blood in the water, attracting more sharks and so it spirals. (How about that for mixing metaphors?)

Hmmmm...sounds kind of negative towards those who take part in the open threads, and there are quite a few of us, on threads on various beliefs.

So are you saying that proselytizing unchallenged, (and closed threads are nothing more than that), is more acceptable to you? If FReepers want to just discuss amongst themselves, a PM would be every bit as effective as a Devotional thread.

If this "proselytizing without challenge" were carried on in the world, would the independent Christian churches, of which there are many, who pay for one or two missionaries out of their members' pockets be equally represented with the churches that can call upon millions of dollars for tens of thousands of missionaries and for TV PR advertising?

Gee, it's sounding kind of like "Pay to Play".

[Elsie]

Imagine how short the "open" threads would be if the thin-skinned posters actually ignored them.

Or the brain-dead...