We Ironworkians are not worse at discussing religion and philosophy than anybody else on the net. Considering what you can see at other forums on religion, even when we're at our worst, we're relatively civilized compared to others.
At the end of the day, discussions on religion will always arouse emotions amongst it's participants and heated discussion will follow. I've been a member here for less than two years so I don't remember the happy days when we could have these kind of discussions without causing a ban, but I do believe that those days are gone and probably wont be coming back.
As I see it, IW as a family forum has perhaps a bit too restrictive rules of behaviour to successfully discuss religion. I don't find it realistic to believe that if the ban is lifted, everyone automatically behave ever after. After a few weeks we'll be at the level that caused the ban to begin with. Either you keep the ban, or you lift it and simply accept ( within reason, of course
) that we'll be at each others throats from time to time.
[ 08-31-2004, 07:56 AM: Message edited by: Stratos ]