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Offline summerthyme

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Re: Connecting to other Christians
« Reply #20 on: May 06, 2011, 12:26:10 pm »
THIS POST IS NOT ANOTHER PRO/ANTI JW/RELIGION DEBATE.
If you have a problem with the site, don't go to it.  If you have constructive criticism about the site, why don't you address the OP directly through the given email?
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Re: Connecting to other Christians
« Reply #21 on: May 06, 2011, 12:35:51 pm »
I would like to echo the Moderator here. On the OP's website, there is a "comment" button at the end of their posts. Please debate the ideas posted on the website on the website

I really don't want to see this place plagued by religious debates.  ???

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Re: Connecting to other Christians
« Reply #22 on: May 06, 2011, 12:37:12 pm »
THIS POST IS NOT ANOTHER PRO/ANTI JW/RELIGION DEBATE.
If you have a problem with the site, don't go to it.  If you have constructive criticism about the site, why don't you address the OP directly through the given email?



She links to a site bashing another group. I would think if it was a site that bashed Jews or Koreans the mods would likely warn her and take the thread down. In her OP she even bashes them. I think that she has left herself open for criticism.

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Re: Connecting to other Christians
« Reply #23 on: May 06, 2011, 12:43:05 pm »
I think there's a rather big difference between notifying the general public (some of whom are Christian) about the existence of website for Christians to connect to each other, and visiting someone personally in an attempt to convert them.

The OP was simply giving the information about the site in hopes that the people it is relevant for will visit. I don't think they were trying to get non-Christians to go if they don't want to.

Just saying...

Actually, I disagree. The difference isn't at all that vast. If I'm honest, most of the Christians I've met here HAVE tried to subtley and strategically impose their moral standards on others, as if their moral code was somehow invented by Christianity and is thus the property of it.The original post was not exclusively to advertise a Christian forum, but to denigrate JW at the same time, by explicitly stating 'here's what to do if they bother you, show them the REAL Jesus' ... I mean, I'll be the first to complain if someone comes knocking at my door, but I still believe in freedom of expression, and neither religious group really represent that in my eyes.

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Re: Connecting to other Christians
« Reply #24 on: May 06, 2011, 12:46:09 pm »
THIS POST IS NOT ANOTHER PRO/ANTI JW/RELIGION DEBATE.
If you have a problem with the site, don't go to it.  If you have constructive criticism about the site, why don't you address the OP directly through the given email?



She links to a site bashing another group. I would think if it was a site that bashed Jews or Koreans the mods would likely warn her and take the thread down. In her OP she even bashes them. I think that she has left herself open for criticism.


PS. Totally agree with this comment.

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Re: Connecting to other Christians
« Reply #25 on: May 06, 2011, 01:34:25 pm »
As a Christian myself, I have to admit that thus far, parts of the OP, the OP's link, and the responses to the thread, have all been generally out of line. I am glad the OP has a link to a site that can build up more Christian community, and I feel that it is something worthwhile to have on waygook here. If left at that (and only that), there would have been no problem here.

However, it is clear that the OP knows little in the manner of tact or apologetics. Firstly, not everyone in the world agrees with Christianity--specifically, roughly 30-33% of the world claims to be of a Christian, Catholic, or roughly similar sect/denomination, and of those, likely less than 40% are actually even remotely religious. As such, feeding an article like this, with a clear attack from one religion to another within it, is definitely against this forum's policies. Even though I am of the same faith, I cannot support the OP in this regard.

But many other people constantly bashing it here are doing far worse, don't you agree? Under-generalizations like "Christians [try] to... impose their moral standards on others" are in themselves hypocritical: of course Christians would do so--everyone tries persuade others of their own moral codes in nearly every thread on here! A thread like "Dating a Korean coworker: right or wrong?" is literally asking for it. But then the moment someone mentions, "Oh, by the way, I'm a Christian," their agenda instantly turns into some deceptive ploy to convert you? Of course not! They're bringing their own background and personal motivations to a discourse... like you are.

TL;DR: Please, everyone, try to keep this forum a friendly place, by focusing on the positive things that people bring here, rather than the small things that individually annoy you.

...and, yes, I realize that with this post I'm actually adding a little bit more to the problem than the solution.