[DocJohn]

We're going to move forward with a new plan for this forum, for better or worse, because the current state of affairs is simply untenable. We have lost members over hurt and upset caused by this forum and by some members' focus on specific religious doctrine and dogma over the more general spirituality we've always intended here.

Some members have chosen to use this forum as a place to express their point of view, sometimes trying to drown out others'. Other members see this as a soap box to evangelize.

We need to go back to the original mandate of the forum -- that it is about spirituality and not specific religions. Discussion -- even positive discussion -- of specific religions or religious doctrine will not be allowed going forward. It is the specific religious talk that seems to cause the most trouble.

We're going to pause this forum for one day to let the seriousness of this new focus sink in. You may discuss this change here:

http://forums.psychcentral.com/showf...b=5&o=&fpart=1

For members who cannot or will not stick to discussions of spirituality, after a warning, and if the member continues, they will be placed into a "no access" to this forum group. They will still be able to access all other forums here, but just not this one.

If, after a few weeks with the renewed emphasis of this forum, we still see too many members struggling to keep topics to spirituality and not specific religions or religious doctrine, we will move this forum to a "Requests for Prayer and Thoughts" format instead, and do away with a spirituality discussion forum altogether.

I'm sorry it has come to this, but there has be a change here in the interests of the entire community.

DocJohn

[DocJohn]

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