Quote Originally Posted by aromulus View Post
Ok, ok, I am all for live and let live....

So my suggestion would be very easy and understandable by all and sundry....

We have lots of people on the forum that rightly or wrongly believe and have views in a certain faith, and obviously like to talk and share that with each other.

So if anybody else that doesn't share in those views would refrain from posting on the threads would be of great help.
Nobody is making you to...
Join in if you wish, but don't criticize because it could make some posters upset.

Only a couple of centavos worth....
OK Dom,
I am a little baffled now.

So is right for people to talk about religion, and not right for other people who do not believe to ask them to stop?

Now I know you are a moderator, as are walesrob and the boss of course.
You three have differing views about this, that is the nature of freedom and self-expression.
Moderation should be to allow free comments and thoughts from everyone, shouldn't it?
If religion is constantly mentioned without rebuttal, then they have their moment in the sun.
Everybody has free speech and that is why this forum works.
To silence anyone smacks of censorship to me.

I would like to know why I or anyone else is not allowed to dispute what Keith calls "mythical stories".

I am offended when religion is mentioned because in my life I have seen religion cause more pain and grief than any other single thing.
I have worked in 42 countries and been to 30 others too, and the only constant source of problems is the firmly set beliefs of all people of religion to dismiss other religions without proper discourse, and furthermore to even kill for these "correct" beliefs.
If non-believers are silenced, there is less hope that zealots curb their bigotry.

Albert Einstein

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."

"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist