Religion forum

lazycritic

How do I post a new thread in the Religion forum?

That's some pretty harsh censorship. What's the point of discussing religion if discussion of certain sects is verboten? Godless spirituality is cool, but it's a topic that's linked very closely with the religious themes and sects of the past.

Hmm. Looks like the Archives=Religion. Looks mistitled. Or is that just me?

Icebreaker

Some of the boards I'm on allows religious debates. One word: CHAOS. Some religious fanatics are just STONE DEAF. "Debate" is not really what happens in those forums.

Kerrie

The "harsh censorship" stems from some harsh members who chose to insult those of various religious sects so often we had to go this route. The negativity completed outweighed the positive contributions, so it's not worth censoring many different religious topics that have caused us mentors a lot of time and frustration because some members weren't able to refrain from insults and attacks due to their deeply rooted beliefs.

Dooga Blackrazor

The majority of this forum seems to be Agnostic or Atheist. Why not make some sort of "Humanist" forum where fundamentalist rhetoric is banned. Most forums mold themselves around the opinions of the majority. Why not do the same here?

dextercioby

You're new.I dunno if u saw the two threads on the new pope we've had over the last month or so in General Discussion,but reading them will make see why locking,or even deleting,is the only option.

Daniel.

Evo

Also, what people don't remember is that what they see is what hasn't been deleted or edited.

Nereid

Because what we want to discuss here in PF is physics (not religion)?

AFAIK, no one requires a poster to have (or not have) any particular religious bent to be able to post here in PF, merely to 'stick to the knitting' (i.e. physics).

Ivan Seeking

We have members from many religions, and some of the mentors are Christians, including me. This is all a practical matter and not a philosophical statement of any kind.

jtbell

Why do we even have a religion forum in the first place? Is there a shortage of religion forums elsewhere?

Greg Bernhardt

It's an archive of threads when we did allow such discussion.

ZapperZ

In other words, some people who don't know any better, have been digging into very old thrash.

Zz.

jtbell

Ha, you guys beat me to it. After I posted my question, I realized that I didn't remember even seeing a "Religion" forum, so I started to look for it, couldn't find it, scratched my head, and finally found it as a "hidden" forum underneath "Philosophy". So I figured it might be sort of like the relationship between the "General Physics" forum and the "Theory Development" forum.

Joel

Maybe TD and RF should be combined?

dextercioby

"Development" and "religion" have nothing in common...

Daniel.

Joel

Yes, they do. Both are common misconceptions.

Joel aka. wise *** (emphasis on ***).

Phobos

Anyone else getting tired of being accused of censorship?
Is it so hard to conceive that we would prefer to discuss science at a science forum?

Moonbear

Well, technically, it is censorship. I only take issue with it being called "harsh" censorship, since it's pretty obvious that this is a science site, not a religious site, so it's totally reasonable to prevent people from discussing religious topics here. Are there any threads left unlocked in there? If so, they probably should just be locked and the religion forum closed for good. I can understand a new user seeing a forum exists might not realize it's not a topic open for discussion anymore. So, just close it completely so there's no confusion on the issue.