Perhaps there should be a forum for anti-religion posts where vitiol and hatred can be kept in one place

Well said Janthea. Giving oxygen to deteriorating threads never leads to any good

Sorry, but I'm not going to sit back and be told that criticising organised religion and religious institutions is nasty. So far as I can see there is nothing nasty on this thread.

OMG! They are going to delete it because there are some potentially libellous posts on it!!!

Wasn't me!!!

Ten minutes to find it!

ana Bags is truthful...she says it, as it is. I respect her wisdom and reasoning and ability to express opinions that for some [including me] find difficult to articulate.

Bags I didn't say that THIS thread was nasty. It was just a general comment about threads that DO get nasty. It can't be nasty as I'm still posting on it!!!

That's true, janthea . Phew!

BTW Ana I'm sorry I buggered off last night to watch the telly and left you to it.

Really sorry.

Any more last words?

soop I did not accuse Bags, or anyone else, of being untruthful! My reply to absent was out of sequence because others were posting at the same time.

That's OK jingl - didn't get me anywhere, did it?

Libellous!?

I can't see anything libellous. #tryingtofrightenus

Oh I think it was the other thread. Where they think it could have been libellous. Sorry

I expect it was the Pope who was libelled.

Never mind.

Ana, I must have misunderstood. I therefore apologise.

Thank you soop.

...back to washing the dishes...

...pile of ironing...feed the cat...tidy the knicker drawer...let joy be unconfined!

Jo, not part of the on-going discussion but I really enjoyed the threads you started on Saints' Days. When I was at (a church)school we learnt about various saints, in assemblies on the appropriate day, and it is great to be reminded of them. I am not religious at all but felt they added something to the day.

Enjoy your tidying soop

Site Stuff is a forum like any other. It's not a direct line to GNHQ but a place to discuss matters to do with the way Gransnet works – discuss, like any other forum.

#deadbutitwontliedown

j08 Just because you start a thread doesn't mean you can decide where it goes or when it stops. We have also seen our original postings wander off in all kinds of directions.

Since non-believers in the supernatural almost never initiate discussion, but only respond to the claims of believers, there would be no point in a separate, ring-fenced forum for them. I understand that it would be more cosy for the believers if they could all agree with one-another in their own forum, and not be expected to actually think about the matter, but that would be yet another kind of religious privilege, wouldn't it?

You all have the right to believe whatever you will, and I respect that right. But I have the right not to believe it, and not to respect the actual belief.

Bored now.