In all my years on FR I have never participated in,or even read,a religious thread.
I never will again.
An angry place.
Whose angry?
Your response is an understandable one.
I don’t see anger as all that necessary most of the time.
RELIGION and spiritual values and issues, however,
DO deal with ETERNAL FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES, TRUTHS . . .
e.g. ETERNAL LIFE.
That’s a HIGHEST PRIORITY issue.
Most of us find it pretty easy to get emotional about those things we rate as our HIGHEST PRIORITIES.
Sometimes, when folks decry the emotionalism of the Rel Forum . . . they merely are confessing to some degree or another . . . that such issues are a low priority for them.
or, perhaps,
that they are in such firm control of their emotions that even ultimate eternal issues don’t engage them all that energetically.
Personally, I don’t mind folks having intense emotions—particularly about eternal issues.
I just prefer folks to stay around long enough to work the relationship glitches through—which occur when individuals are intensely emotionally expressive.
On FR, we have folks who are opposite one another on some key issues with both sides claiming to be reps of the truly truest true truths of Christianity.
Small wonder emotions are tweaked.
Some of us manage to be fierce in our declarations without being hooked in our emotions. Rarely does my heart-rate increase regardless of what I’m posting. Others seem to go ballistic at every nuance from the other side.
Certainly the Rel Forum open threads are not for wimps and the thin-skinned—though many such persist in spending time there and wailing and whining accordingly.
Anyway—thanks for stopping by . . . some of us are quite interesting on occasion. And, the Proddys, at least, don’t have near the fangs the RC’s accuse us of.