Has anyone noticed how threads are increasingly becoming religious? Did we all forget the thread about keeping religion in the religion section and that people have been banned already for doing this?
For anyone that missed this thread, subjects that require explanations using religious texts should be in the religion section. There are a lot of them that are becoming filled with scriptures from the Bible throughout the board.
We should be able to be just as respectful to discuss our religion in the religion section as anyone else, if not more so.
It doesn't matter how strongly you believe in anything, if people are asking that you not include religious discussion in other threads, and they are allowing a place for you to discuss religion, this should be respected. No one is saying that anyone can't talk about religion.
Even when it comes to news and events. If we need to include the Bible in order to participate in the discussion, we can create a thread in the religion section to discuss this. It doesn't have to be in the News and Events sections just because it is a news article.
If you want to discuss this article from a Biblical perspective, it should be in the religion section.
The whole issue in this thread seems to have begun because Vixy is actually paraphrasing from the Bible in this post.
She also doesn't post all that much and probably didn't intend to break a rule, but it should be perfectly acceptable to present a kind reminder to not bring the Bible into the News and Current Events. Then, much of the derailment could have been avoided and this would not tempt other people to start bringing in responses that include prophecies found in the Bible.
So, as a result, whether you are participating in this thread at this point or not, we should all stop making this a religious discussion. If there is some way to break a new thread off to continue this, it should be moved to the religion forum.
It is not fair to people who have been banned for this same thing to see people doing the same thing without the same consequences.