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Rick, You need to find a way to flag the forums that have the good fights going on. So many times I don't know about them until they're over 
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and you proved it by killing the CATC forum ... i have made many friends - not just acquaintances - here. but i will miss all of you. i simply cannot countenance this move, rick, by continuing here as a member. the cyber-toasting of the decision is beneath contempt. i will not look back in here to see if this post is deleted. i have shaken 24campfire's dust from my sandals, just as you have shaken from your sandals the dust of the great Forgiver. Jesus hung around with scum. But you yourself do not see fit to hang around with fundamentalist scum like myself. mercy, i almost made to 8,000 posts ... now this site will be removed from my favorites list. if any of you care to jot it down cyberly, here is my e-mail address: [email protected] how Jesus would've responded! 
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see revision below.***
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How I view this. This is Rick's house. We pay no money to come here. We are invited guests. If the owner of the house doesn't like what's going on, inside his house, he has the right to do something about it. Rick didn't like what was going on in CATC, so he decided to close it. One thing to consider, and that is this place is a place for shooters, hunters, and outdoorsmen to camp out. It's for people from all walks of life to visit, not just Christians, although many Christians atted daily meetings here. But, the Campfire is not just limited to Christians. Our bond is establised, and maintained, by our love for most all aspects of the outdoors. That bond is not one based on one particular religion. Also, I see no problem in having a thread started here on the Campfire about a specific subject concerning one, or any religion. The Mormon thread is a good example, and it was conducted out of a context of respect, just like Teal's thread about the Pope visiting Denver in 1993; that was a good thread too. I can always chime in on a Muslem bashing thread, anyday..  If you choose to leave because of a decision Rick made, so be it. Don
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Fish,
All I can say is I will miss you and hope you reconsider.
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hey fish, if you're still reading...
i have a little difficulty with equating the discontinuation of an internet forum with turning one's back on the Almighty...
i do not see the need to hash out my beliefs in an encapsulated and isolated forum...
i am a believer, and a biblical fundamentalist...
even if i am a little rough spoken for the taste of some in my community...
watch me where i live everyday... and i do not reside inside the church house.....
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Back in the day, Christ at the Campfire was cool. Things changed once the folks showed up who thought it was ok to condemn others to hell based on what doctrine they were.
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Shipster - Rick pulled the forum but not the discussion. No one says we can't talk about religion anywhere else. But what Rick is NOT going to do is provide a specific area for people to do what was being done.
If you are gonna bash someone based on their religion - do it where EVERYONE is going to see it - hang that bad boy right out in the open here on the general forum - let ALL of us see what a bigoted jerk you are (you in general not specific sense). Granted there was no secret handshake to get into CATC but many here never visited and thus didn't see some of the garbage posted there. I believe was posted there because the poster felt safe doing it there.
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The move to nuke CATC is a long time coming. The primary reason, as stated, is my refusal to sponsor anti-Catholic bigotry. If you take my stated reason not to support anti-Catholicism any longer as bigotry toward Fundamentalist, then that is you skewing things. How does protecting Catholicism hurt Fundamentalists anyway? Sad to see you go fish, but I will not create a forum for Catholic bashing, and not allowing such a forum is not any kind of jab toward Fundamentalists (nor Mormons, nor Anglicans, nor Lutherans). I will not look back in here to see if this post is deleted. i have shaken 24campfire's dust from my sandals, just as you have shaken from your sandals the dust of the great Forgiver. So by nuking CATC I have now abandoned Jesus? Fish, I think you're needlessly entangling things.
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Teal, exactly Stick was banned not a forum.
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I wasn't commenting on Stick getting banned vice CATC - I was making the comment that so many supported Rick for banning Stick using the rational that this was Rick's sandbox. IT STILL IS and if he pulled the plug on CATC then we should be able to handle that the same way - it's Rick's sandbox.
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Well, this opens the door for Islam at the campfire. Steve
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Shipster, its a big WWW. 0ut there, Go start your web site run it how you will. We will all drop by now and then.
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I'm not even Catholic and I found the anti-Catholic bigotry on CATC to be a little disturbing. So if the practicing Catholic WHO OWNS THE SITE chooses to flush the turd, who am I to argue?
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Fish 280.
I met you once and you seemed a decent guy.
that cheep shot while going out the door was beneath you.
But I suppose I am just burning electrons here as you will nether read this or return, being a man of your word.
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Tracks wasn't nothin good about those fights.
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fish is.
Nice guy, but dead wrong on this one.
Nuking CATC was not an attack on anyone.
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Just another section of the forums that I never visited.
Certainly there are 8 billion religious forums on the net one could go join if they want to pound their beliefs into others.
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Yes I believe I acknowledged that in a previous post. I was pointing out that the trouble maker (Stick) was taken care of and not a specific forum. Not everybody at the CATC was bashing Catholics only a couple, and they should have been dealt with and not the forum. IMHO. That's all Rick I understand that you felt that something should be done. So you did. But there was also a lot of good stuff that went on there and that's the part that most of the CATC posters will miss. Steve
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Been out fishin lately Rick?
We hammered the salmon on Lake Michigan last Wednesday.
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