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My further twopennorth. I probably gave this thread extra ‘legs’ by pointing out the strange fascination of several posters with beliefs that they dismiss as fantasies. When good faith responses have been made in the past some of these same posters resort to mockery and insults. On my last venture into these waters I made lengthy, detailed and rational explanations as to why I felt that the topic was being superficially approached by some. When the points made were repeatedly ignored or misrepresented, again by some, I decided that enough was enough and bowed out. Within a few hours one poster was gleefully asserting that as far as offering explanations and reasoned arguments was concerned I ‘had form’ in terms of avoiding debate.
I’m happy to discuss and disagree and be disagreed with. I’m not averse to passionate and robust exchanges. What nauseates me is when people don’t engage with honesty, ignore carefully crafted arguments, attribute dissenting views to wickedness or ignorance and … worst of all … take pleasure in the potential to land some sort of a blow by doing the above. It’s one of the reasons why my contributions are few and far between.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment for me is that when one or two posters showed signs of genuine appreciation of someone posting a minority perspective on the Christian faith in a reasoned way and were engaging in respectful dialogue .. … the ‘types’ described above made sure that the thread descended into chaos.
‘It’s only a football fans forum’ has been the rebuttal for my plea for respectful and honest debate. If that’s the defence for all of the above approach .. then I guess I’m right in my take that I should take myself elsewhere.
ps a bit of a pity because I did want to probe 64 as to why it would be ‘conservative’ Christians who would be greeted by Satan. I guess I’ll never get to know.