[Liberal Classic]

Shame on you. You ought not be encouraging someone who is claiming that one group of freepers despises another.

[Alamo-Girl]

I don't know why anyone takes any of this personally. It boils down to one worldview which is incompatible with another (which isn't unusual at all on the Religion Forum.)

And I certainly do not wish to encourage anyone to hate anyone. I'd much rather encourage everyone to love one another despite the utterly incompatible worldviews.

[cornelis]

I don't wish to perpetuate distractions, LC. But I'm aware that, being human, we are all tempted to react to things that do not pertain directly to the problem or specific question. This is a common error, especially when we wish to win rather than learn.

I think that forum etiquette is something that our culture needs to take up seriously. This new medium has some serious weaknesses. It's up to the mature to keep a steady keel. More often than not the better ones turn to their own blogs, having run out of patience, and setting up a sort of microphone that rarely engages dialogue.

FR has dialogue going. But for this it must be an open forum and it has to suffer the weaker imputs. Those of us who are steady keep our eyes on the goal. My goal, and I hope we are together in this much, is to forge ahead with the issue. This is super hard at times.