So, recently I've been active on a couple of other web forums. I won't name them because I strongly suspect that my experience would be the same wherever I went - except for here - and so it doesn't matter which ones they were.
There is one site that I posted on yesterday and this morning. That's it! Parts of two days. Three people were so unhinged that I put them on my ignore list just to get them off my back and several others there seemed to be just searching for any excuse they could find to be offended by the things I say. All I've done there is create one single thread where I recreated the poll that I did here a few years back where I asked the question "Is God moral?" and, just as I did here, I held off on posting my whole essay on the topic so as to see what sort of responses I'd get without having muddied the water with my own thoughts. Just doing that, not immediately coming out with my whole thesis, was all the excuse some of those people needed to get their undies all knotted up and no amount of my insisting that there wasn't any tricks being played or traps being set could convince them that I didn't have some underhanded agenda.
I actually got banned the other site from because I was, in fact, being overtly offensive to people who were saying things that were just flat out not Christian doctrine and/or being flagrantly blasphemous. I've posted there once or twice again since they lifted the banning. I can tell that they're just waiting for me to say one wrong thing so that they can pounce and ban me again. I'm trying now just to see how long I can go, being careful not to say anything overtly offensive or insulting just because I can tell my presence there is driving them crazy.
In short, two Christian forum in a row are just about as unwelcoming a place as could be imagined. One of them actually has an active ban on any mention of the Trinity! How is such a thing even possible?
The point here being that I want very much to express my gratitude to the owners and moderators of this website who grant me the latitude to be who I am. There's no doubt at all that I have too often gotten too angry and too nasty with some here but I have recently, for my own sake, been making efforts to focus on the things I can substantively respond too and just ignoring the stuff that used to get under my skin. However, what I've learned from these other sites is that even that isn't enough to prevent someone from being offended if that's what they decide they're going to be and there's no greener grass on other web forums. TOL has always been the best theology debate forum in existence and I'm proud to be a member here.
There is one site that I posted on yesterday and this morning. That's it! Parts of two days. Three people were so unhinged that I put them on my ignore list just to get them off my back and several others there seemed to be just searching for any excuse they could find to be offended by the things I say. All I've done there is create one single thread where I recreated the poll that I did here a few years back where I asked the question "Is God moral?" and, just as I did here, I held off on posting my whole essay on the topic so as to see what sort of responses I'd get without having muddied the water with my own thoughts. Just doing that, not immediately coming out with my whole thesis, was all the excuse some of those people needed to get their undies all knotted up and no amount of my insisting that there wasn't any tricks being played or traps being set could convince them that I didn't have some underhanded agenda.
I actually got banned the other site from because I was, in fact, being overtly offensive to people who were saying things that were just flat out not Christian doctrine and/or being flagrantly blasphemous. I've posted there once or twice again since they lifted the banning. I can tell that they're just waiting for me to say one wrong thing so that they can pounce and ban me again. I'm trying now just to see how long I can go, being careful not to say anything overtly offensive or insulting just because I can tell my presence there is driving them crazy.
In short, two Christian forum in a row are just about as unwelcoming a place as could be imagined. One of them actually has an active ban on any mention of the Trinity! How is such a thing even possible?
The point here being that I want very much to express my gratitude to the owners and moderators of this website who grant me the latitude to be who I am. There's no doubt at all that I have too often gotten too angry and too nasty with some here but I have recently, for my own sake, been making efforts to focus on the things I can substantively respond too and just ignoring the stuff that used to get under my skin. However, what I've learned from these other sites is that even that isn't enough to prevent someone from being offended if that's what they decide they're going to be and there's no greener grass on other web forums. TOL has always been the best theology debate forum in existence and I'm proud to be a member here.
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