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Old 05-11-2007   #7 (permalink)
JoshJ
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Default Re: Question about the forum rules- why is religion shielded?

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Originally Posted by Ek0nomik View Post
I think what they are getting at is not to make threads saying: Christianity Fuck/ng Sucks!!!!1!!!!

Granted, not many people would do that and having a rule about "No bashing religion" is rather pointless, because we are all adults and we can share ideas maturely. I just think you are looking into it too much.
The rule, as it stands now, would allow a moderator to delete a post saying "The Bible claims that god has killed over 2,270,365 people. This is a cruel, mean god. If this is true, god is a murderer." as "bashing Christianity" (and Judaism as well)- this is clearly a legitimate comment to make about Christianity, but since it's negative it could be claimed to be "bashing" Christianity, and as such could be deleted by a moderator.

Would it not be better to have rules that aren't so clearly abusable?
“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”- Robert Green Ingersoll
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