I don't see any difference in what is being said now and what was commonly understood under the supportive guidelines. IMO it would only cause additional strife to say at this time certain people of this and thus belief won't post in that and vice versa... for the problem has been, imo, that those of a certain beliefs include negative discussion of others' beliefs, sometimes under the guise of a friendly thread/post. By making some agreement to stay out of threads, oh my that is just not going to work imo. There are some ppl who might come on and wish to post only to rile others up. Unassuming new members might fall into the lead and the thread is off track from there. It would be best if everyone could just leave a thread or a wayward post totally alone...let it hand out there by itself. Human nature gets the best of all of us. Some people's disorders perhaps cause them to need the last word on everything. I'm not leaving the forum, and I'm not threatening nor offering to do so.

We each need to be adults and quit with the sarcasm and putting all the blame on other people, quit making side and snide comments for any of this to work. That probably isn't possible for some. But then, that's the administrator's job, to control that member. If we moderator ourselves as we agreed to when we joined Psychcentral, and discuss our own spirituality, and give support to those of like beliefs, then when it goes awry for some reason, let the admin handle it. I think they are doing a progressively good job!

I know what spirituality means, what it means to me and from reading here, what it means to the members who have expressed it. In fact, I don't see where anyone here doesn't know. Just because I use Scripture doesn't mean I'm pushing it into anyone's face. If I'm attacked though, or my God is, of course I want to set things straight. But then, I could leave it up to Him to do, but that would be stern. I have the right and responsibility as a Christian to demonstrate good apologetics. But if my faith isn't attacked, why should I have to defend it?

My spirituality encompasses a great many areas of life. I have been a Christian for a very long time, and while there are plenty of things I'm still learning about, they are the deeper things of God. What I already know can give great comfort and allow for understanding by younger Christians. I have no problem with others sharing their faith with others of the same faith. Just don't go slinging around the word Christian like it was dirty.

Perhaps the real debates and discussions need to go to chat or PM, as we've been asked to do by admin. Put me down, my faith and my God all you want in private. I don't put you down in private though. I do help others try to understand where some other's faith "come from" and how they might be thinking. The better we understand each other, the more likely we can work together on this. But there will never be a time of peace ..not here at PC, not anywhere, imo because people know what they know. But here at PC we can get along in some fashion, imo, with admin's help.