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To: IronJack
Listen to yourself! You no sooner tell Jim that he's stifling debate than you proceed to suggest what kinds of threads he might consider banning.

He might consider? Are you aware that he has done so in the past?

There is no hypocrisy here: There's a huge difference between stifling dissent and staying on-topic. I believe quelling the first is fatal, and maintaining the second is vital. If the place exploded with home decorating tips or a floating bridge game or pet grooming advice or get-rich-quick schemes, I'd expect someone to jump on it pronto.

2,804 posted on 12/02/2001 6:52:06 AM PST by Ratatoskr
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To: Ratatoskr
If the place exploded with home decorating tips or a floating bridge game or pet grooming advice or get-rich-quick schemes, I'd expect someone to jump on it pronto.

How about tattooed Barbies, padded codpieces, and nosy in-laws? Oh, and turtles that breathe through the excretory end of their alimentary canal.

I wouldn't consider religious threads in the same league of irrelevance or triviality. Since our religion is the prime shaper of our culture, it is an integral part of our society and our government. Granted, most religious threads end up as a sort of biblical dodge-ball, with one side throwing a scripture that battens their position and another countering with quotes that -- at least in their opinion -- completely disprove the opposition defense. I don't feel that purely theological subjects are particularly valid here, but certainly the moral derivatives of religion bear on our social structure.

2,811 posted on 12/02/2001 7:12:45 AM PST by IronJack
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