Actually it does happen and has been happening for some time on FR. That is why you find specific posting restrictions, such as the one below, on various Religion Threads and why there is a separate Religion Moderator who patrols the Religion Threads zotting any posts that make the religionists thereon uncomfortable including the posts of co-religionists whose theological views don't accord with the prevailing majority there.
According to your view that must mean that those "folks can’t handle a public discussion about articles and aren’t secure enough in their own beleif to handle counter points and counter opinions,..."
Come to these threads as you are; leave with what you have discovered. Absolutely no flaming! These daily threads are intended to be devotional in nature. If a particular day's offering says nothing to you, please just go on and wait for the next day. Consider these threads a DMZ of sorts, a place where a perpetual truce is in effect and a place where all other arguments and disagreements from other times and places are left behind.
I can attest from personal experience that reading from Chambers daily will almost certainly change - not one's faith - but one's perspective of his/her own faith, and open up new vistas in your spiritual life. If - when - this happens to a reader of these threads, and they choose to share what has happened within them - we are treading on hallowed ground. Be respectful.
- Religion Moderator
Apparently respect is a one-way street and requires a nanny to enforce it.
Actually, I welcome debate and counterr points. I do have strong disdain for propaganda, lies, deceit and outright slander, particularly when done in the name of any religion.
hmmm- funny- becasue I see all kinds of counter arguments in those threads where the antichristiaN posters say some pretty heavy negative stuff- Your accusation leaves out hte fact that those that do get zotted were nothing more than personal attacks such as Doc does here- trying to shut down any opposing views. So I’ll state htis again:
Thisi s a public forum- if folks can’t handle a public discussion about articles and aren’t secure enough in their own beleif to handle counter points and counter opinions, then perhaps a public forum isn’t the place to be posting articles of interest. Folks like Doc might like to be able to go unchallenged on a forum that is obviously counter to what they themselves might beelive, but soryy- aint gonna happen.