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Laura,

Try putting yourself in the other person's shoes. You belong to a forum where the residents are mostly evolutionists whose sole aim is to tell you how wrong you are. A few other creationists turn up to help you make your own points.


Some of his beliefs are very offensive to me but no doubt he feels the same about me, and hopefully we can avoid focusing on that. I do appreciate the fact that the mercury forum is here and it is one of the best forums of its kind on the internet.



I have typically been "scrolling on by" concerning some of the posts in this section lately. I quite literally haven't had the stomach for it. I do want to say a few things today though.

Linda, the very people who's beliefs for which you admittedly hold extreme high disdain (i.e., "the Christians" as you have referred to us), are the very people you are quick to approach for help, information and advice. While you are hovering in the Creation and Evolution section of the Forum, sometimes debating, other times deceptively attacking the members of the Forum in one form or another, you are simultaneously approaching those that you disdain for help in another section of the Forum.

I don't think anyone here was concerned one way or the other about your personal religious beliefs, Linda, when you arrived here and first posted an Introduction post. In fact, it is YOU who have made it the issue.

I have witnessed the very people who's beliefs you disdain actually respond to your posts in efforts to share information and sincerely help. During the process they have not attempted to change your religious or non-religious convictions. They have not responded to you in the pejorative.

Contrary to what you seem to think, I see no real evidence that the actively contributing members of this Forum are here to tell anybody how wrong they are about their faith. They are here because they are gathering and sharing information. Many of them are here because they are ill. Some are very ill indeed. Some individuals are quite literally unable to care for themselves or even raise themselves from the bed for long periods of time. Some of the individuals are more incapacitated from illness then you, Linda. They are not here to "tell you how wrong you are." They are here trying to get well.

You have said in the past "there are a lot of Christians here." If this fact is so abhorrent to you, Linda, then why do you continue to return and post here?

And while you slander and assassinate the fine character of the Forum owner here, you continue to take advantage of his property and the information contained therein. He owns this place. He created it. And he pays the bill for it. Furthermore, I feel as though you are taking advantage of alot of good-hearted people here who are miserably ill and desparately trying to regain health.