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Originally Posted by Hopey
It won't be a copycat of SMP. You'll be able to proselytize all you want in the new forum. You won't need to back up your assertions with facts, and won't have to worry about whether or not your arguments are sound.
The problem is that you *think* that these "rules" have always been true for SMP. In reality, the only reason that you've been able to get away with what you've gotten away with over the last year is because the moderators had all disappeared and nobody was left to enforce the rules.
I've been warned by Zeno for being too mean to certain posters. Zeno isn't just singling out the theists. Your feelings of persecution are completely unwarranted.
for once, hopey is right. philosophy discussion and religious discussion are two very definable and separable entities.
furthermore, religion does not belong in a core sciences forum. there are only sparse instances where religion and philosophy/psychology intertwine, producing intense and unresolvable debates/tardoffs that disrupt other discussions.
with that being said, when religion does get its own subforum, it will no longer be necessary to continue to post threads
that do nothing but tout the validity of evolution. it will be assumed that evolution is a valid scientific theory, and therefore, any thread that serves no other purpose but to validate evolution will be interpreted as another form of religious prostheletyzing and should be immediately locked and/or moved to the religious forum.
of course, any threads initiated to discuss differring viewpoints of evolutionary theory would be acceptable, but it would be incumbant of the SMP mods to make determinations of which threads fall within these guidelines. personally, from past experience, mods of this forum have not been able to moderate in a manner that is non-partial between Theists and atheists, but with the addition of the religious forum, i think that much of the religious haranguing that goes on in SMP can be alleviated. and if mods continue to remain inpartial, nasty tardoffs will continue to reign (who the fkk knows, maybe that is what people really desire, internet tardoffs)
lastly, why the fkk hasn't the religious forum been created yet?