Why I'm getting sorta sick of Sam Harris (2007/03/16)
There’s this guy, Sam Harris, who has made quite a name for himself in the evangelistic atheist community. I first became aware of him through some ads he took out on the Internet Infidels discussion site. They had the text “The End of Faith” superimposed on a mushroom cloud.
[read more...]Dove foundation astroturf! (2007/01/07)
So, a while back, I wrote about the lying telemarketers at the Dove Foundation. According to some of the comments, people who have talked to them have found out that, in fact, the alleged operator is just a set of recordings being played back in vague relation to what you say.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Defining marriage, part 2 (2006/12/26)
So, to follow up from part 1, I’ll resume the story later in 2006, some time after the rules were revised to eliminate any reference to the definition of marriage.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Defining marriage, part 1 (2006/12/11)
This one’s long enough to need to be a series.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Bradfordgate (2006/11/16)
Ahh, Bradfordgate. The high point was when one of the ChristianForums staff confessed to killing and eating another (then-former) staffer.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Confidentiality (2006/11/16)
There’s a lot of talk about confidentiality and secrecy, not to mention privacy.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Socks and the appearance of evil (2006/11/14)
One of the quirks of CF is that, for as long as I can find records of, official policy has always been that moderators are strongly encouraged to have a separate account, not identified as theirs, which they use to debate.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Secret origin story! (2006/11/13)
It’s funny, but in a way, the origin story of CF is secret.
[read more...]ChristianForums: One Bread, One Body (2006/11/12)
One of the interesting things that ChristianForums had was a dedicated subforum for Catholics. Some forums exclude Catholics, claiming they are not Christians at all. CF actively included them. The subforum was called “One Bread, One Body”, and is one of the higher-traffic areas of CF, simply because there are so very many Catholics.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Kicking the snot out of the Mormons (2006/11/12)
Once upon a time, very early on, one of the proto-boards which eventually merged to become ChristianForums as it’s known today used the Apostle’s Creed as its standard of “who is a Christian here”. By the time I reached the site, it was using the longer Nicene Creed. A brief experiment in 2003 allowed members to use either, but a “problem” was found: Mormons accept the Apostle’s Creed, but almost none of them can agree to the Nicene Creed.
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