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[QUOTE]Originally posted by romanesque: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...: [qb] romanesque - Mystery Worship reports are discussed in Ecclesiantics and the whole tone of that board is a wry humour about church and church worship. Different boards have different flavours. Purgatory and Dead Horses tend to be for intelligent debate without many assumptions made, and an expectation that arguments can be backed up. I often read on my phone while commuting and will not click on arguments made by links to long YouTube clips, and those links break up the discussion. It's better that the protagonists can summarise the argument in their own words. Also on a long thread you may find that much has already been discussed in the previous pages. In Dead Horses, those of us who have been posting on that thread for the last five years may well not be want to engage, again, with an strand of the debate that was discussed four years ago. There are a number of regular debaters in Purgatory and Dead Horses who are not Christian. There was an influx of atheists when the Dawkins boards folded, and some of those people are still involved. And then there are the people who came here to discuss their doubts / feelings about the Christian faith they were experiencing. When I joined the Ship, I read that many doubters either ended up no longer Christian or Orthodox, and there is a degree of truth in that. If you want frivolous, try the Circus or Heaven, but don't expect it to be all Christian, because it won't be. Particularly if you expect a certain flavour of Christianity. [/qb][/QUOTE]Thanks for the reply, particularly the detail about the influx of atheists and the role of SoF in confirming doubt. Also the resistance to links, all of which I'll bear in mind. Taking replies in the round, it seems I'm being accused of preaching and frivolity. Perhaps it's because I've never seen religious belief as an impermeable and unqualified set of rules to which unquestioning assent has to be offered - and I view science in the same way incidentally - but a doubt filled negotiation with a numinous that's unavoidable. Of course that alone may rub people up the wrong way something rotten, some because I'm a wishy-washy liberal, others because I'm an idolater, and quite a few for having the cheek to suggest the numinous is even a concept, never mind a fact. I don't mind taking flak from multiple positions at once, but I do deny that I'm deliberately provoking it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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