Stop preaching!

[Thoreau]

There are a few members here who occassionally post threads in the Religious subforum; threads that simply recite biblical or quranic verses. Bear in mind these posts/threads ask no questions or engage the viewing audience in debate/conversation. They are simply posted to recite various verses from various texts.

So, in order to save the hassle (and the bandwidth), if you want to read the Quran or the Bible (or other holy books), I've attached links to them below.

http://quran.com/

http://www.biblegateway.com/


There is no need to waste our space and time on this forum by creating threads that simply recites scripture. If we want to read it, we can read it on our own. If you insist on creating a thread containing scripture, at least engage the reader by asking questions, ie have a debate topic. Without doing so, it is trolling. It is just the same as someone else posting a thread containing, "The sky is blue".

Do you agree with me on this? Would you even go so far as to ban "preachers"???

 

[Enmos]

From "Posting rules for Religion forum":

7. Preaching, Proselytizing, and Evangelizing

A. Definitions:

Preaching – a “sermon” or address of a religious nature. Using religious dogma to support a point.
Proselytizing – making an attempt to convert someone to accept a religious opinion
Evangelizing – a version of proselytizing in which the religious believer’s true agenda is to spread the “word” to others of different or no faith.

B. The inclusion of religious text to support a point that isn’t related to a discussion or examination about a given religious text is considered to be, at a minimum, preaching. If the discussion is on the nature of various translations of religious text and how religious societies accept or interpret these texts, then quotes of scriptures would be appropriate.

C. A scriptural quote would be appropriate if one was attempting to explain why religious adherents make certain decisions, behave certain ways, believes certain things, etc. If, however, the quote is provided a priori from the point of view that it is a given truth that supports itself, it would be considered preaching or proselytizing.

D. Continued preaching and proselytizing would be, thus, considered evangelizing. Evangelizing in a science forum will not be tolerated.

 

[420Joey]

MZ3 arent you preaching right now you might as well make a topic about all rule violations that get broken, just let the mods do there jobs....................

 

[Thoreau]

MZ3 arent you preaching right now you might as well make a topic about all rule violations that get broken, just let the mods do there jobs....................

Nope, I asked questions. I engaged the readers for discussion. If anything, the shoe can be reversed and show that, having not responded to my posted questions, that the troll has made his appearance.

 

[Saint]

we debate here,
not preach,
but we also respect freedom of speech.