While I sincerely appreciate EACH and EVERY person’s faith and completely agree that ONLY GOD knows what HE wants, I would like to make a humble request to you.
On FR we should refrain from posting about our churches and why they are the One True Path.
I truly and genuinely respect that you believe it but maybe other FReepers dont.
Thus, we should, in my opinion, stay away from such discussions as they will lead to heartburn INSIDE FR.
Not advocating self censorship by any means. Just advocating the “agree to disagree” principle
Thanks for your very appropriate remark. I have recently seen an increase in this type of posting or comments.
A couple of times I have been drawn into a “discussion” that I felt inappropriate for an open forum and moved the comments off to freep mail.
Best regards,
TF
I disagree. In the RELIGION forum on FR, the open and frank debate of religion is the purpose. Trying to separate the supernatural out of the political is part of the modernist malaise that has led us to the corrupt, even decadent place we find our culture at today. This is a particularly good piece in my opinion for that purpose.
I simply post the info about the Catholic Church for those who may be interested and for Catholics who like to stay informed about their faith.
I believe if no one wants to know about the Catholic Faith they can just scroll to the next thread. I don't think it should be any problem.
Regards, Gonzo
I get tired of all the silly entertainment threads - so I don’t open them.
I’m not sure why FR decided to offer religious threads, but FR has both open and closed threads on religion. And while some of these threads are primarily name-calling, some have genuine thought and discussion.
“Thus, we should, in my opinion, stay away from such discussions as they will lead to heartburn INSIDE FR.”
I could not disagree more strongly. Free exercise of religion includes the freedom to set forth the reasons that we believe as we do.
That doesn’t mean that anyone has to listen, or read. But intellectually mature adults should...no, *must*...extend to others not only the freedom to believe as they do, but the freedom to talk about it.
If other posters find the discussion to be intolerable, then it is up to them to walk away, not up to the parties to the discussion to shut up.
On FR, of course, that is subject to the rules established by the management. In the larger society, it is a right protected by the Constitution, as correctly interpreted.
Since returning to the States in 2006—or perhaps I should say “returning to where the States used to be”—I have seen that rules prohibiting the discussion of politics in the workplace are a good idea. But this is not because *people* cannot discuss dearly held beliefs without becoming angry or developing undying enmity.
No, it is because libtards—whether they are known as progressives, leftists, Stalinists, Maoists, democrats, Marxists, liberation theologians, modernists, whatever word they are using to disguise their true nature and ruler—it is because one side *and*not*the*other* cannot discuss dearly held beliefs without becoming angry or developing undying enmity.
A company doesn’t care. They just want the work done without excessive hate and discontent in the workplace. Their solution, therefore, is to tell both sides to shut up.
A much better solution, a much fairer solution that displays far more respect for the truth, is to tell the people who can’t tolerate the expression of disagreement to shut the hell up or move the hell on.
If you can’t tolerate it that Catholics are free here to explain what they believe and why, then the problem lies with you.
If I couldn’t tolerate it that protestants are are free here to explain what they believe and why, I would be wondering why I was acting like a libtard.