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Old 05-11-2007   #9 (permalink)
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Default Re: Question about the forum rules- why is religion shielded?

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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?
That isn't bashing - that's making a statement based on information.

Bashing would be saying something stupid, like, "Gee - doesn't the Christian God come off as a huge dick? I mean he just murdered millions of people. Anyone who could have faith in such a God is a complete twat."*

* This is just for the sake of argument. Personally, I'm a Christian, so no one need get their panties in a bunch.
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