Are children encouraged to join this forum as they should be?

Question

Or are they discouraged and frightened by your course and harsh vulgar dialog? Even at my age I find some of it hard to stomach. But as a younger Christian child I wouldn't even recognize it as a religious and spiritual page. What are you willing to do to encourage children to benefit by engaging and participating in discussions on this forum?

Answer 1

Honey no one of your tender age should be on this page. You will have to find you another place to squat. This is the harsh reality of life we are dealing with here. Not for the tender disposition of children. In other words get lost.

Answer 2

This is why I despise trolls. They turn what could be a really great place for lots of people, into a hostile environment ... all so they can inject a little "shock" value as a way to gain some attention.

It's not that people express strong opinions about their atheism or religious beliefs ... that's an important part of this forum ... it's the incessant need to score some cheap shot by mocking *other* people's beliefs.

Answer 3

you do not ought to locate replacements. Frankly if I were sending a baby to a preschool, i'd pick the committee to be chosen by the college administration, no longer different moms and dads.. in simple terms deliver a written record declaring you're unable to locate replacements yet ought to now end your participation on the committee . Then upload your appreciation for the honour of assisting in the course of the previous 4 years! it really is it. What are they going to do-arrest you? Sorry-i'm including on the following because i realized i did not answer your question. no longer some thing would inspire me to get into the politics of a pre college committee the position money and the most aggressively performing moms and dads win

Answer 4

I would argue the "as they should be" part. Children should be encouraged to read and understand other beliefs, cultures and people. This is no place for a child! I'm fast upon 30 and I don't think I'm old enough sometimes.

Answer 5

Children should not be allowed on here unsupervised. But I know my 10 year old granddaughter sneaks on here. This is not a forum for children as the issues discussed are too grown-up for them. I would not encourage them.

Answer 6

You ask a valid question, but I don't think that any child under the age of sixteen should be allowed to participate in this forum given its content to date.

Not all non-believers who post to this Forum are hate-mongers. And some self-professed Christians seem to have left the love reservation when judging some of their responses. I will confine my remarks below only to those that act badly.

For these individuals, it is interesting and sad to see how some persons will behave when hiding behind the anonymity of the computer. As an "old guy" I have occasionally acted irresponsibly in my youth, so I can relate, but only up to a point. It is also readily apparent these persons would be ashamed if they knew their parents, husband, wife, children, etc., learned of what they write herein. They do their loved ones a disservice and dishonor them with such behavior.

The questions and answers one sees in this forum all too often represent a triumph of flippancy over rigor. These flippant persons that post ad hominem, obnoxious, vitriolic items obviously have not formally studied the matters being asked for several years. Rather they enjoy mockery and proving that they really have no value to add to the answer and too much wasted time on their hands. (This is one of the reasons I moderate an advanced theology forum on the internet so I can filter out the nonsensical.)

The scriptures speak of such persons:

2Ti 3:1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
2Ti 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
2Ti 3:4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2Ti 3:5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

For these reasons "...God gave them up to dishonorable passions." (Rom 1:26)

The best solution I can recommend for you is to ignore their vapid questions or comments and sooner or later they will go away. It is very easy to scan past them and focus your eyes on the substantive and cogent items. If you spend enough time in this Forum the persons prone to ill manners become known quickly, enabling the ignoring of their wasted efforts even easier.

It is curious to me that you never see any forums dedicated to atheism being inundated by Christians spewing vitriolic catch phrases or just nonsense. Yet virtually every unmoderated forum on the internet dealing with religious topics is full of unlearned or rude detractors. Atheism has become increasingly shrill of late, apparently hopping that saying something more loudly and more dogmatically will make it seem more credible especially to their own embattled supporters. Christians have nothing to fear from this hostile rhetoric, unpleasant through it may be. Hopelessly overstated arguments that once seemed so persuasive such as "science disproves God" have lost their credibility, becoming mindless slogans, where once they were cutting-edge ideas. It’s about preaching to the converted, shoring up a collapsing building with rhetoric rather than rigorous argument.

Likewise, the questions are sometimes poorly formed or are laden with underlying bias that tells the reader that no cogent and rigorous answer will satisfy the asker.

In fairness, I am frequently embarrassed by other Christians' answers. I feel a sense of dismay over the obvious lack of deeper learning that is evident by many of the responses. Most seem to want to just fire off whatever pops into their heads, streams of consciousness, etc., with no evidence of reasoned arguments and synthesis of the issues. Some of the questions are often shallow or just asked for point building or something.

Unfortunately, many very good Christians have not spent enough time trying to learn and understand the theologies of the faith. Many also lack formal training in biblical hermeneutics, so they may misunderstand the full meanings of the texts they frequently quote.

I am not advocating that everyone get degrees in theology, only that they spend some time studying materials outside the scriptures so that their faith will be solidly grounded.

The biblical doctrines tell us that all non-believers have their ability to properly reason clouded by the evil that entered the world at the Fall of mankind. Hence, atheist or whomever, I believe that those that are not among God's elect will be in an ever-present state of tension between what God has revealed to mankind and their desire to seek their own counsel.

Some groups non-believer's may be interested in:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Non-Believers/
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/topics?hl=en

Want to know why non-believers hang around this forum so much? See See Erika R's excellent and cogently written answer at: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvfsfC_oV9b71eDhBO9.t8jsy6IX?qid=20070214222750AABkZwl&show=7#profile-info-wudNsFgZaa

Just keep asking questions in an objective manner and you will sometimes get useful responses. As a formally trained theologian with a Ph.D. in engineering, I try to answer questions so structured with reasoned theological, philsophical, and logical responses.

Answer 7

I think Yahoo has a 13 or over policy here.

Answer 8

This is not where I would tell Children to come too!!!

Find something else to do!!! Find another Site!!!






Wahoo

Answer 9

This should not be a kiddie's intro to world religions page.