Phoenician_Viking
Banned
When it comes to not catching people by surprise with a ban, I certainly agree, we need to do better about that.
What if I said Persona is a game made for shun-in losers to encourage them to talk to other people and told you to go outside more?
Unfair, right? Pretty asinine, right? In fact, I'd be saying this just based on your avatar without even knowing what you feel about the franchise or whether you're referencing P3 or P4A.
Yet your post implies a lament, echoed by others, of not being able to act similarly to MLP fans.
Anyway, to be entirely honest, religious discussion is pretty damn hard to sort out. You have the deities in question, the interpretation of those deities, the organizations devoted to those deities, the adherents of those deities, and the philosophical underpinnings of the entire venture. Furthermore, church is often not some thing people just go to on Sunday, as it can have real societal effects and quite often political effects. The religious right in America has bred a ton of ill will along these lines. Efforts to undermine the teaching of Biology in schools for "religious reasons" has also bred ill will.
I'm personally not anti-religion in general, and I do agree people shouldn't be asses to each other, but when it comes to "should X be considered sacred?" I'm not really sure what to say. Usually when you give protected status to religion hypocrites quickly use it as a shield or you get situations when it shuts down discussion in the other direction. I understand the complaint, but like others have said previously in this thread, it's not an easy call and I don't have the best answer for it.
By the way, P4A Elizabeth is awesome.
Let´s be honest here. Don´t you think that you personally calling someone a bible thumper is a attack on said person and it opens the flood gate from others to attack said person?
To be honest, i was surprised to see you using that term in Chick fil-A thread. I have never seen you do that before to anyone else. I am agnostic, but that honestly bothered me. If an admin can lose his cool and call someone that, why would other like minded individuals show respect to others of different mind set?