Various replies:

Hard to see how someone who says "do not discuss this topic here" is anything BUT a topic policeman. If you don't like the label, don't act like it. Religion is just as reasonable a topic for Mudcat as sex and politics and soap. Okay, Harpgirl, so you've made your opinion known. But the final call is Max's and he allows it. If you want to stop religion being discussed here, I suggest you take it up with Max. Any more about it in the threads and we'll have to consider it whining. Or worse.

By the way, I am NOT an evangelical Christian, thank you very much.

Kat, your point is well taken. Nevertheless, I fail to see what is so offensive about talking about one's beliefs, even in a thread that is not belief-o-centric. If your beliefs inform your opinions about a certain topic, then they are germane to a discussion of opinions about that topic. I was not here when the flame war erupted about healing circles (I'm not even sure what that means -- can somebody PM me and fill me in?) but if I were, I would be firmly on the side of free speech, even for people I disagree with or whose beliefs I don't share.

Praise, you keep being you, hon. I see no reason for you to edit who you are in order to make others happy.

The preceding is the personal opinion of the author and is not necessarily the position of Mudcat, Max, the Orthodox Church, or Mrs. Sergius Smedmeyer of Kamloops, British Columbia, if such a person exists.

I'm sorry this thread has disintegrated so badly. It was for the most part so pleasant. Ah well, the best laid plans of mice and men aft gang agley.

Alex
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