> Sigh. I think we're seeing exactly what will happen if such a forum is formed... then all my talk of my personal faith would be expected to only be displayed in that one forum...

I guess the idea would be that posts that had a significant religious / spiritual component would be shifted to that forum yes. Just like how now posts that have a significant focus on a particular disorder are moved to the appropriate forum, posts that are significantly about peoples t's are moved to the therapy forum etc.

> and those who have no faith in anything...

people who don't have faith in religion / god / spirituality still have faith in lots of other things. i have lots of faith. i'll give you a couple examples:

- i have faith that people are generally well intentioned (that exceeds the available evidence as i have no reason to believe that they are or that they are not when i have never encountered them before)
- i have faith that the future will resemble the past in certain respects (in the sense that the laws of nature are constant) that gives me faith in a whole heap of stuff e.g.,
- i have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow
- i have faith that if i drop my computer it will hit the ground and break :-(
- i have faith that human beings are gradually evolving into greater social and natural awareness. that while some use their enormous brains to devise means of destruction we will evolve to appreciate that our wellbeing and our descendents / genes wellbeing is dependent on our looking out for this planet of ours.

and so on and so forth...

i also have faith that there will be no life after death for me
to which i say WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO thank god for that no more pain and suffering for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(though i also allow that future technology may make survival after death possible)

i'd leave a religous / spiritual faith forum alone. i'd let people support each other in their religous / spiritual faith. pray together. whatever. i'd leave them alone. 'cause my beliefs aren't considered to be supportive of religous / spiritual faith and i understand that.

Though I do like to discuss arguments for the existence of god :-)

> My faith is a part of me. There is no separation of mind/body/spirt for me.

you wouldn't have to seperate them... just because there are boards that are designed for people to post about their mental illnesses (bi-polar and the like) it doesn't mean that they have to seperate themselves from their illness on other boards (and indeed i appreciate that they could not).