I Support the Moderator

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:56:55 -0500, RFaussette@aol.com said:
> In a message dated 12/13/2004 1:39:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Terry M.
> Gray" <grayt@lamar.colostate.edu> writes:
>
> >To the group:
> >
> >Of course, George is right in suggesting that this is off-topic. And he's correct in reminding us that we've been down this road before, especially with Rich.
>
> As I recall the development of this thread (which bears little
> resemblance to it's subject line at this point), there was a paragraph in
> one of Anthony Flew's comments that touched on the Palestinian problem
> (or whatever we want to call it) and someone or some people couldn't
> resist commenting on it even though it was not a faith-science issue.
> Then, naturally, *everyone* joined in.
> Let's do try to exercise some restraint on this sort of thing.
...
> You can do one of two things here. You can really devote yourselves to
> the arguments and learn something or maintain your old boys network and
> snipe at people from behind one another.

That's a false dichotomy. Terry didn't analyze who was right or wrong,
but rather that we have gone off topic. There's a third option, keep
people on topic. I for one support Terry's efforts in doing this. Off
topic threads grow very tiresome very quickly and as evidenced here
quickly degenerate into personal attacks. Let's all make Terry's job
easier and show the Christian virtue of self control.
Received on Tue Dec 14 16:19:32 2004