Rammstein said:
Do you really not understand why this is annoying to me?
No, Rammstein, I do not, other than your personal hostility to religion in general and Christianity in particular. This does not really compare to the offense many people take at crude gutter remarks permeating the site - a problem that several people reported was causing avoidance of the forums and several others (including me) to
stop recommending these forums to people.
I find it unlikely that anybody will refuse to visit the site or stop recommending it to people because there are religious articles linked in response to questions in one Off Topic thread - which to my knowledge is the only "religion" discussion since the site started cleaning up.
This thread started with brandishing snakes (a rather humorous news story). I then posted an article that I knew had a disturbing depiction of a man that appeared to be "brandishing" a snake. The picture turned out to be missing from the article, but I found the picture elsewhere and posted it directly here, to be seen on page one.
Yes, the article in the link had a religious theme.
Probably motivated by a cursory glance at the article, another poster mentioned something that was not accurate about what the bible has to say on the subject, and, when I corrected him, there were several questions posted.
I answered as honestly as I could.
Should I not do so?
Was there any "proselytizing" in the posts?
I answered many more questions privately in response to private messages.
Most of the religious matter was contained in articles I linked, and thus the discussion was
not even present on this site which should thankfully spare you the grievous emotional distress you claim you suffer when you see anything religious. :roll:
I am not sure how you can compare this one thread to the gutter talk that had become so rampant on this site that it was about to force the moderators,
against their unanimous inclinations, to take a stronger editorial hand.
So you go and find the one thread that even mentions or links to something religious (and in the Off Topic section at that) and post every third post or so about how offended you are.
And you expect us to take that seriously?
Rammstein, to be perfectly honest, I would actually agree with you if religious proselytizing was present in "every other thread," as you state, but it is not. You found one thread after the MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN weighed in on the trash talk.
I frankly do not take anything you have posted in this thread seriously, and I suspect you do not, either.
If you really do take your posts in this thread seriously, then I have to question why you keep returning to the thread. This does not strike me as rational.
If there was a thread, two thirds of which was devoted to the crudest and vilest sort of perversions, or links to sites containing the same, I cannot say I would keep returning to it (except as appropriate in a moderator role).
As a more pedestrian example, I do not have a great interest in knives. Guess which thread near this one I have not been reading? Maybe I should go over there and post every third post about how
boring a thread on knives is and demand that they "understand" my boredom and annoyance.
