Allow Religious Debates.

[Sacred Tsahaylu]

I do not think this is a sensible idea. General forum policy dictates that NO religious debates take place. As you can see in the Do You Believe in God thread, even a simple question can escalate through tangential comments. There is no doubt that the users of this forum are mature and sensible but it would only take one ill phrased comment for the debate to escalate into something more.

[Woodsprite]

Originally Posted by Sacred Tsahaylu

I do not think this is a sensible idea. General forum policy dictates that NO religious debates take place. As you can see in the Do You Believe in God thread, even a simple question can escalate through tangential comments. There is no doubt that the users of this forum are mature and sensible but it would only take one ill phrased comment for the debate to escalate into something more.

Sadly, not everyone is like me.

But this suggestion is not about whether or not we bend the rules. This is about changing them; about changing the general policy. It's true one ill-taken comment can lead to certain things, but we've gotten far enough as it is with many topics in the Debate section that are already borderline-religious, and those haven't erupted into anything negative.