William Paolini said in the Religion Forum:
Yes, cute post. However, wrong. Bad mouthing anything is off limits. Take bad mouths to the No Holds Barred forum or risk your account.
Done.
The problem with this standard is that "bad mouthing" is poorly defined and entirely personal/subjective. The back and forth between Doug and me for example, (a dialog I have enjoyed quite a bit over the years), actually contains a lot of what most reasonable people would perceive as "bad-mouthing." I've mocked Doug's most profound fundamentalist/literalist beliefs and he's noted that I and other Catholics are damned to hell for following a non-Christian path.
Usually Doug and I don't get too offended by each other. From a moderator's perspective however, we have undeniably bad-mouthed each other's faiths over the years - countless times
Sometimes I'll apply a thin veneer of civility to a post that Clyde (for example) might have dispensed with but the underlying bad-mouthing is still there.
So; as suggested, I'll take any and all religion discussions I might participate in to NHB. The rules in the Religion forum are way too strict and capricious. I like the NHB premise. Also, I personally don't want to hang out in any forum where a group of people (A/A's) are prohibited access based upon a belief classification. That strikes me as un-American.
Jim
