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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Not true. Having been raised a Catholic by Brothers of the Holy Cross, the fine brothers that founded and run Notre Dame University, they teach critical thinking, questioning authority, and debate. I met many people from St. Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, who are also extreme critical thinkers. There was no shortage of debate about the many decisions from Vatican I to the Council of Nicea and the affect on the modern Roman Catholic Church.
I'm going to make a simple assumption that they just got tired of trolls, plain and simple.
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Why do you assume? This is a recent occurrence so all the pre-Christian-only-policy threads are still there. You can go take a look and see how much trolling happened.
Also, did you miss the part where I'm a member of this site? If trolling were a problem, do you really think that I'd bother starting a thread here about how "pathetic" this action is? There was little trolling. Just some hard questions and intense discussions.
Ironically, I remember when the only part of the board that was open to non-Christians were the debate forums. After some complaints were made they decided to open up the rest of the forums (personally, I think they realized they could make more money that way). Now they've decided to close off the debate forums and everything has gone 180°...
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I believe it's their perogative to attract and increase their membership as they need to.
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Originally Posted by levite
I feel like, whatever, it's their board, if they want to say this is a Christian-only area, so fine. Still, it does seem more than a bit defensive of them.
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No one is saying that they don't have the
prerogative to exclude whomever they like. I'm simply saying that excluding people who disagree with you from your debate forums is weak and pathetic...
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Originally Posted by levite
I belong to some discussion forums on spirituality, magic, and the occult (that's my professional area of interest), but at least they are open to anyone joining, even if the anti-religion rhetoric does fly a bit thick for my tastes. Why anyone not a Christian would want to join a Christian group perplexes me, unless we're talking about people who are religion professionals with an expertise in Christian thought, looking to discuss ideas with their subject populace....
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Well, it's no fun debating with non-Christians about religion in general and creationism in particular, so I'm on a Christian forum...