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Thank y'all so much for the heads up on this discussion! Thank you for your wisdom and insight, Nakatu X! Thank you, Aric2000, for apologizing to those of us who are hurt by jokes about our Creator.

AndrewC, I realize you are probably frustrated at being reminded so often that you are an "outsider" to the agreement. I regret any ill will you may have suffered or experienced.

One of the essential things that we built into the agreement was a provision that each side would exercise good faith to "police" their own. The provision should help avoid having one side pointing fingers at the other to comply, thereby justifying a counter response of the same type, i.e. a flame war of compliance.

I strongly suspect the tension here is caused by that kind of 'us' v 'them' atmosphere. Hopefully, everyone will now accept that this issue has been satisfied as far as it can be under the circumstances and put it behind us.

As you can see denials are replete but it is important to set in place whether you consider the behavior I have pointed out as acceptable or not. Now two people have apologized, one honorably, to the failures of comportment that I pointed out. Is is acceptable to belittle other people by comparing them to others and not directly stating that to the person being compared? Note that the comparison is of no value in a debate. The comparison itself is a red herring and was placed in public and not a private message. Is it acceptable to use the words drunk and insane in describing beliefs of the opponent? Is it justified to say someone is complying or not complying merely due to signing or not signing the agreement? And if someone is charged with not complying, and only not complying with no substantiation, is that in itself a violation of the agreement?