holysmoke
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It's too funny - there's no bias here, because the whole site is built on the platform of neutrality.
However, some members have their own personal agendas and try and inject that into the forums.
It's pretty laughable, though, and best ignored.
Thank you, Bandit, for confirming reality on this forum for me. The fact that you are still here gives me encouragement although at any time when logging in I expect Brian's ever-so "neutral" "You are banned. When will the ban be lifted. Never." My beef with this forum does not just stem from my current membership. Brian really does need these reality checks to understand that this forum is far from "neutral" when it comes to Christian beliefs being seriously expressed by Christian members. How can we talk about the reasons why Jesus was so opposed to Pharaisic Judaism for example if no one here is allowed to diss Judaism? Without the ability to express our Christian beliefs, this is becomes a sham interfaith forum, at least for us Christians.
When I call for freedom to express Christian beliefs honestly I am not calling for special treatment of Christians but for intellectual honesty. As some of you may have gathered by now, I believe that two or more spiritual truths that are essentially diametrically opposed to each other can never come to a place of mutual respect and harmony of believers. I really think "ecumenicalism" is a totally fraudulent intellectual concept that just wants to put a Happy Face over real, serious, disagreements between religionists, e.g. Christianity with its belief in Jesus Christ as representing the Son of God and Judaism and Islam which are both intolerant of such polytheistic conceptionalization of the Godhead. The lack of reality for harmonious interfaith relationships keeps reappearing, e.g. the current Pope's relationship with Jews and Judaism. These interfaith attempts to cover over major disagreements are doomed to fall apart as soon as the spiritual leaders get back home and face their constituencies. Most every religion contains a Golden Rule but who practices it when it comes to religious believers, each thinking their religion is THEE ONE and ONLY, like I do with my particular brand of gnostic Christianity.
This is why I think it is wiser to acknowledge these strong differences and, well, just fight it out in an open arena of debate. Let the natural urges express themselves that want to show why one's religious beliefs or lack of them is better for the world than someone else's. I believe this is the way all leading ideas come to fruition, they are placed without protection out into the real world to withstand or crumble before their critics, and this is a good thing because the winners of the intellectual/spiritual contests have proven themselves against all comers and people following the winning ideas have confidence in their beliefs being really true to reality, spiritual or mundane. Without conflict of ideas, you get mush instead of sacrificial mutton