Recently, I posted some new rules and guidelines for the Religion forum. I think that while I have clarified the existing rules of the forum, there are still a few things missing from the rules which could be there. But, as I said, this place is what the posters make of it, so I don't want to impose my ideas for the forum on people without some discussion.
I would therefore like you to briefly list the things you find most annoying in the Religion forum. Note, however, that in this thread I am <b>not</b> interested in your views about other individual posters, and if you make any negative comments mentioning a specific poster by name the entire post in which those comments appear will be deleted from this thread.
All other comments are welcome, but you might like to consider whether you want the following kinds of posts and/or threads here:
(a) "My God is the best God because..."
(b) "Your God is a stupid God because..."
(c) "All members of Religion X are [fill in the blank] (but I'm not going to give any reason why)."
(d) "Look, here's something about my favorite religion I cut-and-pasted from another website ... I have no thoughts of my own about it to write here, but I'll post it anyway."
(e) "Here's a link to a website promoting Religion X. Everybody take a look."
(f) "1 billion people are converting to Religion X every second, which means it must be really good! Here are some articles which back me up..."
(g) "Religion X makes me laugh. Ha ha ha. How funny it is. (Ooh, I hope this makes all those Xers angry.)"
(h) "Religion X condones violence! Look, here are some quotes from Religion X's holy book which prove it..."
(i) "Prophet X of Religion Y was [a liar / a thief / a homosexual / other derogatory comment], and therefore Religion Y is bad!"
(j) "Look at all the good things Religion X has done for the world such as ... Gee, Religion X must really be the best religion of them all!"
(k) "All religious people are just fools who believe fairy tales. I won't post anything to back up this statement; I'll just assert it as a self-evident fact."
(l) "[God / Prophet X] doesn't exist / didn't exist. And he's stupid! So there."
These are (slight) caricatures, but you get the gist.
So, what annoys you most about this forum? What makes you want to throw something at your computer screen when you read it, because of the sheer stupidity? Or (even worse), what kinds of posts make you wonder if it's really worth reading the forum any more?
I would therefore like you to briefly list the things you find most annoying in the Religion forum. Note, however, that in this thread I am <b>not</b> interested in your views about other individual posters, and if you make any negative comments mentioning a specific poster by name the entire post in which those comments appear will be deleted from this thread.
All other comments are welcome, but you might like to consider whether you want the following kinds of posts and/or threads here:
(a) "My God is the best God because..."
(b) "Your God is a stupid God because..."
(c) "All members of Religion X are [fill in the blank] (but I'm not going to give any reason why)."
(d) "Look, here's something about my favorite religion I cut-and-pasted from another website ... I have no thoughts of my own about it to write here, but I'll post it anyway."
(e) "Here's a link to a website promoting Religion X. Everybody take a look."
(f) "1 billion people are converting to Religion X every second, which means it must be really good! Here are some articles which back me up..."
(g) "Religion X makes me laugh. Ha ha ha. How funny it is. (Ooh, I hope this makes all those Xers angry.)"
(h) "Religion X condones violence! Look, here are some quotes from Religion X's holy book which prove it..."
(i) "Prophet X of Religion Y was [a liar / a thief / a homosexual / other derogatory comment], and therefore Religion Y is bad!"
(j) "Look at all the good things Religion X has done for the world such as ... Gee, Religion X must really be the best religion of them all!"
(k) "All religious people are just fools who believe fairy tales. I won't post anything to back up this statement; I'll just assert it as a self-evident fact."
(l) "[God / Prophet X] doesn't exist / didn't exist. And he's stupid! So there."
These are (slight) caricatures, but you get the gist.
So, what annoys you most about this forum? What makes you want to throw something at your computer screen when you read it, because of the sheer stupidity? Or (even worse), what kinds of posts make you wonder if it's really worth reading the forum any more?