Sadly, after 11 years here, I'm beginning to feel just a little "uninvited" myself now.
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Secret Chief
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What's stopping exclusive participation in religious discourse?
If you sign up to a forum called 'Religious Forums' and you are a liberal atheist, you should realistically expect to be in a minority. It's not that you are uninvited but if one is coming here for the off-topic discussions, which is what those subafora are, I'm not sure why you're upset that people are wondering at that. It's not the main intent behind the forum.
Secret Chief
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It's nowhere near unanimous though.
Unanimity is rarely if ever reached. A majority is the usual reasonable end.
Secret Chief
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What?! A music thread in the music sub-forum is NOT off-topic.
Secret Chief
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To enforce your preferred outlook?
Being inundated by the overwhelming amount of political threads and the diminishing amount of intellectual religious discourse due to members who want to participate in such discourse departing the forum.
In a forum called Religious Forums talking about music is off-topic and is therefore given a subforum.
That's the point.
Like those Jack the Ripper fora I mentioned. There are off-topic discussions (on many fora actually called this for the heading), such as news and The Arts. These are not the main focus of the forum.
I don't understanding why folks aren't grasping this. These are used for winding down after intense on-topic discussions.
And constitutions are created to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
This is so religious -- it's just like shunning. "We don't like the way you think, so get out of our church, you heathen." Another thing the religious do so very well.
This is a private business. It has a focus.
It's like going to a shoeshop that happens to sell napkins to buy a napkin and becoming annoyed that the majority product is shoes.
Then perhaps you and your majority should pursue a more select forum. I hope you enjoy it while it lasts.
We could enjoy it were not not drowned out.
Secret Chief
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In the eye of the beholder. There's regular posting of pro Trump, anti Biden, let's burn books, let's deny bodily autonomy, anti LGBTQ+ rights, pro gun etc etc. Echo chamber much?
Secret Chief
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What a weird attitude.
By you maybe. Not by me and I'd suggest not by a lot of others here.
That's probably not true either.
Iirc the founder created this place while he was in college in the hopes that he could use it as a resource for his own studies on religion and theology.
But as far as I know all (or most) of the other non-religion related subforms were part of the original schematic.
Maybe some of the people who've been here since the beginning could help me out on that.
@Jayhawker Soule
@Shadow Wolf
According to the poll a majority just want fewer Trump/Biden threads, which is understandable since we've been inundated
with us for a while now.
So far only 27% are saying they want no politics at all. Hardly a majority.
Open one of those threads. Count the amount of posts by liberals, and then count the amount of posts by conservatives. Then count the amount of liberal participants and then count the number of conservative participants.
I'll wait here.
Why exactly do you think the forum is called Religious Forums?
Secret Chief
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Compared to how populated this forum would be if it was essentially discussing theology with all the "off-topic" stuff squirrelled away somewhere?