(October 12, 2010 at 9:23 pm)Chuck Wrote: I think many of us had issue with close friend or relatives who strongly held points of view on the issue of faith vs reason that is opposite to our own. I personally had an unpleasant experience, where I dealt with the conflict badly and hurt someone quite seriously. I think a subforum dedicated to sharing experience on how to deal with the conflict this caused, or any pleasant or unpleasant outcome this created, would be helpful. This forum should demand some self sensorship so one who agrees with a poster's point of view would refrain from insulting the poster's friend or relation which the poster's thread is about.
"Posters friends"? you mean like IM buddies? lol.. this is online.
As a matter of fact I can quite proudly say that I've lost a childhood friend and a girlfriend who were both christians as a result of their inability to take a ration of constructive criticisim now and again.
But does that concern me? It did initially, but nah.. fuck it. If people can't take what you've got to say then they aren't worth having around you in the first place.
^ if that was what you were getting at.