I don't care anything about car racing or basketball and very little for the NFL. When I see a thread about any of them I don't open it and I certainly don't post comments expressing how much I think those sports suck. Hint.
Puzzles me why the same thing can't apply to "religion" or anything else.
Here's a hint: because this is a business (i.e., Rick receives revenue from it and is legally responsible for it).
For the same reason that porn is yanked off of here, as well as some of the more egregious racism and other filth that pops up from time to time, religious threads get scrutiny because it can and does potentially threaten his business and his legal responsibility. The type of stuff that was posted under "religious" threads that lead to the making of CATC not visible to the public (and seems to be cropping up again) directly threatened Rick's business relationship with sponsors and possibly him personally for at least implicitly condoning such activities on his site.
Now, when NASCAR or the NFL or basketball threads start doing the same then they'll get the same scrutiny and treatment.
Wrong.
If it were about business and revenue, a LOT of stuff would be yanked from this place that isn't. In fact, the very subject matter of this Campfire (guns, hunting), not to mention a primarily conservative bent, automatically disqualifies us from many revenue sources, and creates the type of heartburn that 4ager implies would intimidate or affect my decisionmaking. I can speak for myself, thank you.
Heartburn comes with this gig. I accept what I have to.
No, the reason Christ at the Campfire was nuked was because I naively thought it would be a great place for Christians, which most of the Campfire membership is or professes to be, to fellowship. It wasn't. In fact, it was just the opposite. And that's it in a nutshell.
It turns out we can't fellowship so well as "Christians," but only (maybe) if we are a certain brand of Christian. It is true that I and many others here are Roman Catholic, and the level of Catholic-bashing was over the top.
I am a hunter. I do not have to sponsor anti-hunting or anti-2nd Amendment content.
I am an American. I do not have to sponsor anti-American content.
I am a devout Catholic, and a Christian, and I do not choose to sponsor anti-Catholicism. As wise sage and member of this Campfire mentioned to me, "There are no pews in Cabelas." Now I know why. I will not make the same mistake again.
As to the Private Forum, I do not visit it. It is decidedly NOT by invitation only as some have claimed, and never has been. If you ask, you will be granted access. BUT, you are on your own. I consider it a large group Private Message of sorts. By all accounts, it has dwindled, and I am not surprised, after what I saw on CATC. I want no part of it.
