Yeah! Fist pump! Whoops I’m probably in trouble from you-know-who again just for responding.
Honestly.
All one has to do is look at history since the Protestant Reformation and the predominant religion of the most successful and freest, and the most oppressive and oppressed countries, and it’s not hard to find a correlation.
And honestly, considering Elsie’s list of popes, and the history of the Catholic church, which is hardly pristine, and it’s laughable to think that the demise of civilization began with the rise of Protestantism.
I think we have a ways to go before we drop to the level the human race was at before Luther posted his 97 Thesis.
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The main guideline to posting on the Religion Forum: "Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal..."
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Linking to Previous Posts on the Religion Forum:
The objective, on the Religion Forum, of not bringing forward disputes from prior threads is to discourage flame wars spreading, in particular the needling or badgering of other posters by bringing up their past remarks, again and again.
However, if you were to say “I recall your saying something else on an earlier thread” and the poster challenged you “Oh yeah, where?” then you would be obligated to link to the previous thread and I would not pull it.
If you want to argue the previous claim, then go back to the earlier thread, ping all the interested parties and say something like “Here you say the sky is green. Why?” The respondent will be obligated then to explain the green comment in context with that particular thread and parties involved in it.
If however you are seeking to “impeach the witness” by showing he waffles back and forth THAT is “making it personal” and I will pull it to avoid a flame war.
And if you are trying to embarrass another Freeper by recalling his inconvenient comments from prior threads, THAT is also "making it personal" and I will pull it to avoid a flame war. If however he is linking to an article posted by someone else - and that article was a "caucus" of which he was not a member - then I might pull the post anyway if I think it would have the affect of defeating the caucus label. Besides, he can always quote the source article directly without seemingly trying to work around the caucus protection. ...