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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8539222" data-attributes="member: 6701124">It feels like it's a matter of&nbsp; practicalities.&nbsp; It probably isn't practical on a hobby board to let folks go willy-nilly offend large numbers of members about their religious beliefs or non-beliefs when the insult isn't needed if you want the conversation to flow without a flood of reports.&nbsp; And it also is probably impossible to have many conversations at all that aren't oddly constrained if one has to imagine any possible religious belief anyone might have before posting.And it feels like the terms viewed as insulting aren't needed to make many of the desired points.&nbsp; You don't need to call the bible a myth and compare it to works of fiction, for example, when you want to ask how a good character would deal with the command to kill all the men, women, and children, when there are historical incidents you could compare it to (which would presumably have more bite, anyway).And if someone is continually offended about how their own non-mega religion is described as myth on here - ask that it not be described that way when it is, and report the folks who keep doing it after being asked to stop.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8539222, member: 6701124"] It feels like it's a matter of practicalities. It probably isn't practical on a hobby board to let folks go willy-nilly offend large numbers of members about their religious beliefs or non-beliefs when the insult isn't needed if you want the conversation to flow without a flood of reports. And it also is probably impossible to have many conversations at all that aren't oddly constrained if one has to imagine any possible religious belief anyone might have before posting. And it feels like the terms viewed as insulting aren't needed to make many of the desired points. You don't need to call the bible a myth and compare it to works of fiction, for example, when you want to ask how a good character would deal with the command to kill all the men, women, and children, when there are historical incidents you could compare it to (which would presumably have more bite, anyway). And if someone is continually offended about how their own non-mega religion is described as myth on here - ask that it not be described that way when it is, and report the folks who keep doing it after being asked to stop. [/QUOTE]

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