The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

I understand what you mean, but you basically stopped the discussion of something that involved no flaming or disrespect whatsoever just because it was based on religion. I think, actually now, that most of us on this site are adults (18+, I know I certainly am) and I don't really need a simple, civil conversation halted just because it's about something that could potentially become dicey.

Sigh. You could have simply said "I think you are lying". Given that the section of my post that you quoted said...

Which, like I said, has nothing to do with it being religion. There is no censoring or any other stupid thing going on there. I have no problem with someone going and discussing it in another thread

Which you addressed as if it had instead said "STOP DISCUSSING RELIGION. THERE IS NO RELIGION DISCUSSION HERE." What your response said was a fairly large step from what I actually said, to be honest.

Simple conversations spawn off like/hate comments all the time, and they normally peter out after a short time. If it does start to build momentum, then it's normally moved to another thread, but that wasn't what was happening here.

Again, I felt that it was building some momentum (lengthy responses, and the exact points being discussed simply seemed like something that I could see someone wanting to get into deeper discussion about, which, again, is no problem. I just don't want those not involved to possibly feel that, due to the somewhat serious nature of the topic, that it would be rude to interrupt with something that would then be considered "off topic". By all means, I would openly encourage people to discuss it in another thread so that they could have all the space in the world to discuss the topic without hijacking another thread (which yes, I do feel it would gain momentum by its nature. Its something that people feel passionate about - rightfully so - and its something that - even if I'm wrong about this - I felt people would want to lengthily discuss.)

- Ashe, Leader of the Religious Discussion Silencing Squad

EDIT: By the way, I'm not angry or anything, so I apologize for any offense I might cause in this post in the attempts at humor or just getting straight to the point. I just walked in the door and wanted to address this directly, but yeah, I don't want anyone thinking I have some problem with them or anything.