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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2641966" data-attributes="member: 63">If I may risk offering my views here, I've always felt the intent of the board guideline was to prevent arguments and flame wars.  I personally think it's silly to be offended by someone stating their own religious beliefs, as long as he's not derailing a thread.For instance, I'm a non-demoninational Christian, raised Lutheran, with Baptist leanings. So what? I'm neither judging your beliefs nor belittling them by stating mine. If a thread in off-topic is just talking about how people cope with stress, I would think that being offended by someone mentioning religion is being a bit too touchy.Likewise, Kai Lord's sig . . . it's a Tolkien quote. How does it offend you?I don't recall what your previous sig said, Alzrius, but I know I've seen it a lot lately, and I don't remember ever being offended. I will say that changing someone's sig without asking them is rude (unless you had something like, 'I hate groups X, Y, and Z' that is blatantly offensive). At the very least, give the person a chance to change it himself. It's the difference between a cop telling you to move your car and a cop towing your car away. Back to the original point, though, the guidelines are intended to prevent attacks against religions, not to excise religion from the world of EN World.If I can draw an example from my life, one day in high school I was joking about how the west coast sucked, and as one example I said that Seattle had the highest suicide rate in the states. I was not a Nirvana fan, and so had no idea why two of my friends ranted at me for being a complete a-hole. Once someone explained that Kurt Cobain (lead singer of Nirvana, from Seattle) had killed himself, I apologized for the misunderstanding. What I said was not inherently offensive, but the people I said it to got offended.Should I be prevented from talking about Nirvana on the boards?The band, I mean, not the metaphysical state. That'd be religion, and religion is bad.*grin*</blockquote>

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