Religion & Spirituality - What Happened.?

[Khandro]

I wondered this - it used to be a lively arena.  I just tuned in to see if there were any posts: I think I can see the reason why.

[naomi24]

Why?

[douglas9401]

God knows.

[Clone]

The reason why is?

[Atheist]

R & S doesn't seem to interest the younger generation any more. R & S is just another topic guaranteed to encourage in-the-bubble insults and it's good if it is ignored. There's plenty of scope for it in the news section when the oldies get going about the way they are being invaded and their blood is getting infected by vermin.

[Old_Geezer]

It is because no one wants to discuss such things sensibly.

 

It used to be a good place for conversations. For that matter so did the science forums. But members come and members go and thus forums peak, then fade again.

[naomi24]

Having read atheist's uninformed answer, I would say ... you had to be there.

 

Still waiting for khandro to tell us why.

[Khandro]

^^ Did you take a look ?

[Clone]

I did, but still want to know your reason why.

[david small]

Because it's now a subdivision. Whereas it used to be a category on its own. Demotion.

[naomi24]

I looked, khandro.

[naomi24]

David Small, it's always been a sub category.

[barney4444]

I personally have been and still am going through some worries and issues, as is every one else of course, but I get comfort and help from my beliefs and thoughts about religion, and find it almost offensive when people who are not of the same opinion try to belittle and mock me for daring to think that there may be something more after we leave here than emptiness,  you are perfectly entitled to think that  science and rational thought would mean that it just can't be true, that however doesn't give any one the right to mock people who dare to think differently about it.  

[david small]

I sid corrected Naomi:>)

[david small]

Sit.

[naomi24]

Are you going to tell us Khandro?  I think it's because the main players (apart from a few of us remaining) have either died or simply drifted away.    Until his death Theland kept the place active with his questions and his battles with nailedit were legendary.  Some soaring intellects who really had studied the subject inhabited R&S in the old days but it wasn't always serious.  We had a lot of fun there too.

[Khandro]

n. The only thread I could see was by someone who had made the effort to come in, in order to denigrate an entire religion due to, - considering the vast historical scope of that religion -  a few regrettable incidents by small number of its adherents.

It reminds me of the story of Pedro.                                 

[naomi24]

The threads are there, khandro.  Click on 'answered'.  If you want to generate conversation there you need to initiate threads but many atheists are well read on the subject of religion - probably the reason they are atheists - so getting responses you don't like is often an occupational hazard.

[rowanwitch]

Like many areas it filled up with people with immovable positions, and people posting links to 'lectures ' given by people who also spoke from similar immovable positions.   To me it became boring.  I have better conversations with my friends, who include a lay brother attached to Whitby Abbey, and a female Irish Catholic  (now agnostic) and sometimes a couple of random paranormal  converts.  

[naomi24]

There were some big brains there though, Rowan.  Mighty intellects!

[Khandro]

^^    'The Telegraph published a news report by John Bingham headlined;  Rowan Williams: fixation with gay rights, race and feminism threatens society. A fixation with gay rights, feminism and separate racial identities is threatening to “fragment” British society, the former Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed.'

The next archbishop should be an 'unwoke' one, but I won't hold my breath.