Timeline for 2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Jul 22, 2013 at 20:29 | comment | added | The Freemason | How are you identifying the "If it were known that a person were a nonbeliever"? | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 22:43 | comment | added | pterandon | @Caleb, that is a quote in how a seeker (interloper?) was responded to for asking a Question. It is an issue we face. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 18:25 | comment | added | David Stratton | @pterandon - I wouldn't argue that, but comments here is the wrong place. If you would, I'd like to talk in chat. In your last comment, I believe you have a point. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 15:13 | comment | added | Caleb Mod | I don't think this question well expresses the actual issues we face. It's kind of rhetorical. If a question were polite, academically oriented, properly formatted and well cited then, by definition almost, that question would not be a "thinly veiled attempt to discredit Christianity. It might be a thickly veiled attempt at something, but we can only judge based on what we see and if all the indicators are correct, the scope is good, the tone is good, the content is good -- then that really isn't a situation that calls for a moderator to make a judgement call hence not useful for vetting mods. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 10:52 | comment | added | pterandon | The difference between yourself and me is that I shudder at ever treating non theists in this manner, and half the reason I'm running for moderator. We recently bullied away a man who was asking questions about his observations on evangelism-practice in the third world and making no more Trollish indictments of the faith than Benedict XVI did. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 10:46 | comment | added | pterandon | Henry Drummond wrote: "[C]reeds are human versions of Divine truths; and we do not ask a man to accept all the creeds, any more than we ask him to accept all the Christians. We ask him to accept Christ, and the facts about Christ and the words of Christ. You will find the battle is half won when you have endorsed the man's objections, and possibly added a great many more to the charges which he has against ourselves. These men are in revolt against the kind of religion which we exhibit to the world—against the cant that is taught in the name of Christianity." | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:06 | comment | added | David Stratton | General non-Cristians who have serious questions about the validity of Christianity are one thing. Trolls are a different matter. The "thinly veiled attempt" comments come out when I think someone is just trollimg. And occasinaly I'm wrong and when I realize it, I tend to retract the statement, apologize, and attempt to learn from it. My typical use of the phrase can be found here Tips for editing a question to make it suitable for re-opening | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:03 | comment | added | David Stratton | You're right on that... I have made comments to that effect when voting to close as "not a real question". In those cases, the context made it appear that they were not really interested in answers, or were using the site a point. More often, I tend to answer the questions, ignoring the fact that it's from a non-Christian, by starting answers with something like "a standard Apologetic answer to this question is..." and citing a reference. How I handle each case depends on several factors combined to help me decide the right response. | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 16:37 | comment | added | pterandon | Anyone care to explain the downvotes here? I've seen David Stratton go after someone with that exact same charge. Do you think it never happens, or shouldn't be discussed? | |
| Jul 15, 2013 at 22:48 | history | answered | pterandon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |