avocationist
Posts: 173
Joined: Feb. 2006
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Well, I plan to lurk at UD for the great new information they dig up, but I have lost my respect for that blog.
First, I got placed on moderation for getting irate with Dave over his treatment of some new person. Using a term more mild than viscious for the way he was spoken to is hard to justify.
I figure I was on moderation because that post quickly disappeared and after that my posts disappeared into cyberspace for a few hours before reappearing.
It gave me a surreal feeling to see my open complaint disappear. Made me wonder how many other such things disappear, and made me wonder what the true flow of things would look like uncensored. Made me wonder how much censoring goes on.
Then, from a post by Dembski about an ongoing book-essay by a friend that was linked, I pulled out this and praised it:
| Quote | In the great commission, and in many other places in the New Testament, we are told to joyfully share the ”good news” with others. Is this the good news, that after all the trials they go through in this life, most of the world is headed–without knowing it–for an even worse place,
unless they accept a Savior they have heard little or nothing about? No, I believe the good news shared by the early apostles is not that the world can be saved from a punishment they didn’t know awaited them, but that they can be saved from a separation from God that they are well aware of, and that to be reconciled to God they don’t have to follow His will perfectly, only to accept His forgiveness. Though the very word ”gospel” means ”good news”, the gospel many churches are trying to spread today is certainly not good news, and Christianity will never set the world on fire again until we start preaching good news gain. |
I said I hoped this sort of theology would be on the increase, and that I had tried to express this sort of thing myself.
That post never appeared. I find the moderation there extremely erratic and unpredictable, not to say subjective and biased.
I do understand that they don't want the board overrun by attackers, who are after all in greater numbers than the ID crowd, and I do understand that they get tired of the same ole lack of understanding of what ID is and isn't. On the other hand, shouldn't it be their mission to educate? Shouldn't they display more than a two-year-old's capacity for patience?
Turning into a glee club makes them look foolish.
From my point of view, the general run of persons on both these boards are blinded by ideology and use emotion to interpret facts, but what I like about this place is, I expect that detraction to stand.
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