Learn Anything Yet?

[Angrboda]

Chad, I understand why you want to exclude negative comments about believers (I think). However, this is a site that attracts people because of their religious views, and if you exclude views pertaining to how they've changed or learned along dimensions relating to religion, you're going to kill a lot of relevant content. Maybe this is what you want, I don't know. I don't think it would be a good thing. Imagine going on a Christian site which has a section for free thinkers, and asking the Christians if they've learned anything -- about any subject but the freethinkers; it sounds like an unnecessarily arbitrary exclusion, and it would seem to exclude some potentially very interesting stuff. It'd almost be akin to creating a forum where both atheists and theists were welcome, but discouraging them from interacting with each other (much like an AF user recently experienced on a theist centered forum). Number one, it's generally at odds with the overall ethic here at AF, and number two, it's arbitrarily excluding what may be some of the most significant content (from both sides; it's faded from memory, but I think idealogue88 made a relevant interfaith observation that I read this morning; do you want believers to not speak about what they've learned about non-theists, too?) I understand the need to restrict content for various purposes, but in a thread devoted to what people learned by coming to a forum that attracted them because of their religious beliefs, it's unreasonably restrictive to ask them to censor their comments about religion and the religious people on this forum.

And if all else fails, this is AF, you don't own this thread, and we will do what we want, so fuck off. (j/k)