Reply #30: I agree. [View All]

[RevCheesehead]

Read the thread title, then decide if you want to enter or not.

If someone posts "Howard Dean is our best hope for the future," you have to decide if you're going to enter the discussion or not. But if you hate Howard, and post "Howard is a douchebag," you are disrupting a thread, and offending Dean supporters. If you loathe Howard, you are entitled to your opinion. But you really can't blame the Dean supporters if you have personally disrupted the thread yourself. And it would not be unusual for your post to be deleted.

That being said, I have seen many times when a discussion of Christianity is disrupted by someone saying "it's a mental illness, and those who follow it are deranged." Most of the time, I ignore it. But I get sick of the "Fuck Jesus Shit." That's just plain offensive to me.

Believe me, the last thing I want to do is argue about religion. I am happy to explain what I believe, if people ask me. However, I have been called "intolerant", "rude," and "hypocritical" by people who were NOT having a little fun (this was a while back, in GD, NOT here in the Lounge). They were attacking me, as well as my beliefs. God may be able to take it, but I'm a bit more fragile.

As someone wrote above, "it cuts both ways."