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I firmly agree. I think what is annoying is the same “spirit” that I killed when I dumped TV in 1997. Back then I would watch a news story and no matter how biased, the most I could do was throw a shoe at the TV.
With the internet, you can respond to BS when you see it - but not on “devotional” threads. Their very existence, especially once you have opened one and seen what is in it is a sort of in your face “nya, nya, nya, you can’t say anything I disagree with here”.
It’s a minor annoyance, but thanks to this thread I can vent. :-)
Though I do not bother to read the Osteen devotionals, nor agree with the man's theology, those who post his daily devotionals are just as entitled to do so as the dozen or so Catholic threads that pop up here on a daily basis. Do we really need a Catholic Word of the Day or Catholic Daily Mass postings? If someone new was looking at this site and went to the Religion forum threads, I suspect he would go away thinking this WAS a Catholic religion only promoting site. Is this stuff not available any other place on the net that someone feels obligated to make sure it gets put up here? I wouldn't mind if the Religion Forum was a place where we go to discuss CURRENT news that have a religious bent and I don't think I'm alone in this.