GFlash68 Wrote:I do think that the intolerance is being shown by the one who gets upset at one expressing the original opinion. This is also a symptom of the time in which we live. The censorship police is quite hasty to try to suppress the Christian point of view, but I doubt that the others mentioned would be treated so harshly.

What is the christian point of view? Define it in 1000 words or less.

Everyone has their own point of view.

Karl Wrote:You folks post like I just pull this stuff out of my backside, but I don't. I avoided this topic like the plague for DAYS after it was first posted, until someone sent me a PM complaining. Today, I got another. I find the posts in question intolerant, offensive, and ignorant. I don't have the option of putting the guy on IGNORE, like the rest of you do. In fact, as much as I don't WANT to read this whole thread, I have to. I sent the person in question a suggestion to read the AUP, and I'll quote it here:

Quote:- In general, if you are causing people to leave the community because of your actions, you will be banned... even if you're so good at walking the line you have technically broken no rules. NCAAbbs will not let you ruin everybody else's experience and get away with it just b/c you're good at walking the line.

Now if this doesn't fit your definition of a violation, fine. And I may be totally wrong. If I am, I'll live with it. But as I said, a decision to ban is not mine to make.

If posters are leaving the community over comments another poster makes that are not personal attacks, then those posters have the thinnest skins ever. You cannot have good discussion if you ban everyone that disagrees with you.

Jesus Sucks.

MacLord Wrote:It is the typical state of affairs not just on college campuses but in the world at large that there are religions other than Christianity and people who speak languages you may have never heard of. This has nothing to do with moral chaos. My gentle wish is that you find another venue/event/message board on which to place this particular soapbox.

Of course that is going on around the world, but not all within a particular countries borders. Only in America does it seem we want to embrace every religion and every culture and mix them all up and say we're one big happy family. I find this very odd. Do the people in Saudi Arabia celebrate all religions and all faiths at their universities? You can bet they don't. In fact what other country in the world is buying into this? Are the Japanese encouraging their people at the university of Tokyo to speak languages other than Japanese and any religion they want and any culture they want? Are the Chinese doing this? Why is America the only country that is renouncing their own heritage and culture to celebrate "multiculturalism"? If this is such a wonderful thing, why doesn't hte rest of the world follow our example?

MileHighBronco Wrote:I'm not going to make political commentary as I feel at this time it is disrespectful to those who lost their lives. There is plenty of time to pontificate on issues later.

As one who can attest that here in Colorado eight years after Columbine (this Friday) there is still a gaping wound and "healing" will take many years, if ever. To watch the coverage yesterday brought feelings of incredible sadness and pain.

Two touching tributes found today on YouTube, among the hundreds that have been posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWD9tb9c6Ao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0kzy9UBXFY

Stay strong Hokies. God Bless the VT community during your time of loss and pain.

I couldn't agree more. It was way too early. Dennis Prager had an interesting article about this today. That was another thing that was so weird about this service:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...E_ID=55234

Endzone2 Wrote:

MacLord Wrote:It is the typical state of affairs not just on college campuses but in the world at large that there are religions other than Christianity and people who speak languages you may have never heard of. This has nothing to do with moral chaos. My gentle wish is that you find another venue/event/message board on which to place this particular soapbox.

Of course that is going on around the world, but not all within a particular countries borders. Only in America does it seem we want to embrace every religion and every culture and mix them all up and say we're one big happy family. I find this very odd. Do the people in Saudi Arabia celebrate all religions and all faiths at their universities? You can bet they don't. In fact what other country in the world is buying into this?

I recommend taking your head out of a hole and look around....

All across western europe multiculturalism is very acceptable. The cities of Europe are filled with middle easterners.

About 33% of people in the US attend a place of worship on Sundays......that number is 6% in Europe......religion is thriving in this country and is one of the unique characteristics of America.

I don't know about Saudi Arabian universities so I can't speak for what can be instructed there.........I'm sure there would be a few surprises.

Koreans are not all Buddists. I lived over there for a year and the number that practice buddism is fading. About 60%-70% of Koreans are christian. Heck, I lived by three christian churches, one right behind me. This shooting is not about religion. This kid was troubled and may have had depression, which can mess people up badly to the point of suicide or acting out in inappropriate ways. I had to deal with that for 2 years because my parent suffered through deep depression. People are saying that if this kid was christian, this would have not happend. What about Eric Rudolph bombing the 1996 Atlanta games? He was christian.