Religions - Your Opinion

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Ok instead of locking down this thread to scroll back through the last 2 pages or so I am just going to step in (once again) and redirect the most of you back to the ID forum rules. I have went ahead and quoted some of them to aid in this learning process. From this post on I am going to be ALOT more strict in this particular thread, so if you get a warning I don't want to hear any bitching because lets face it I have given enough slack to a few of you over the last couple of pages and this is what you could consider to be a "pre-warning" or a "verbal warning".

I was hoping the none essental chat and bickering would smooth it's self out, apparently I was mistaken in thinking so.

I will go ahead and quote a few of the broken rules just to point out a few of the mistakes that have occured in here recently.

3. Bickering and fighting will not be welcome here. This is a forum for debates and appropriate arguments, nothing more and nothing less. If you are having a problem defending your point of view do not resort to calling another member names. Also, as a part of this, keep the use of curse words to a minimum. You will find that a lot of members have a hard time taking people seriously when every other word out of their mouth is the F-Word.

4. There are many here who follow the path of religion, while others choose that of science. These are two separate fields of thought, so please keep an open mind when exploring the many topics in this forum. Discussing religious matters in a scientific topic is considered off-topic posting. Discussing scientific matters in a religious topic is also considered off-topic posting and in both cases you will be warned and your post deleted. If you wish to debate whether Religion or Science is superior, you must ask a moderator for permission to create a topic solely for that purpose. You may not agree with someone's core beliefs, but the least you can do is respect them.


5. Try to avoid logical fallacies. Things like appeals to ignorance ("Well, if you can't prove ghosts exist, they don't," or, "If you can't prove ghosts don't exist, they must"), circular reasoning ("I know God exists because the Bible says so. I know the Bible is true because God wrote it."), popularity ("Islam is the most widely followed religion on Earth. How could so many people be wrong?" or, "Syd, you're the only one who is against euthanasia, why don't you give up and concede that we're all right?"), or ad hominem, which literally means against the man ("Of course you believe we should pay teachers more, you are one!") are logical fallacies. Here are some links to pages with logical fallacies and their descriptions:

For those of you that have not taken the time to read the rules of the ID forum I highly suggest you do so, now.

The Final Fantasy Forums - Announcements in Forum : Intellectual Discussion

Notice under TFF's rules there is a post from Bunny which include the ID forum rules.

For those of you who are not familiar with the ID forums 2 strike rule I suggest you read the following reading material. Some of you can't afford another warning in this section of the forum. The post you need to read would be the one posted by Chez.

Here is the link to that one: http://thefinalfantasy.net/forums/in...ml#post1008705

Now with that all being said, and I hate having to repeat myself, anyone caught breaking these rules in this thread from this post on will get a warning. There will be no tolerance to this.

If you guys decide to by pass what I am saying and keep up what has happned on the last 2 pages I will close this thread and it will not reopen until everyone can play nice.