Catholic sub forum

hinault

Is there any chance that the moderators would consider creating a Catholic subforum where Catholics here can discuss and exchange views?

The "Christianity" section of this site is populated by "contributions" from posters who have no real interest in "Christianity" and are instead in posting content advocating anything other than Christian values and Christian ethos.

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keano_afc

hinault wrote: »

Is there any chance that the moderators would consider creating a Catholic subforum where Catholics here can discuss and exchange views?

The "Christianity" section of this site is populated by "contributions" from posters who have no real interest in "Christianity" and are instead in posting content advocating anything other than Christian values and Christian ethos.

Posters like myself who enjoy debate and feel the need to challenge your views are certainly not showing "no real interest in Christianity". This is a discussion forum. If perhaps you engaged a bit more instead of running away whenever anyone responds to your posts, perhaps you'd get more out of the forum.

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keano_afc wrote: »

Posters like myself who enjoy debate and feel the need to challenge your views are certainly not showing "no real interest in Christianity". This is a discussion forum. If perhaps you engaged a bit more instead of running away whenever anyone responds to your posts, perhaps you'd get more out of the forum.

Maybe we could have a non catholic forum as well

hinault

Jackson Eager Conductor wrote: »

Maybe we could have a non catholic forum as well

Effectively you already have one.

Peregrinus

Hinault, I think you may want to repost your request here.

For what it's worth, I don't know that a Catholic subforum will acheive what you want. If you get non-Christians posting in a Christianity forum (and theists posting in the Atheism & Agnosticism forum) you can clearly have non-Christians and non-Catholics posting in a Catholic forum, and you probably should expect that that will happen. Why wouldn't it?

I'm not sure there's any way around this , at least not on boards.ie. You could, I suppose, look for a private, restricted access forum, in which people have to be pre-approved in order to read or post, but my impression is that the open discussion culture of boards.ie. generally leans against that, in the absence of pretty compelling reasons. And, even if you had a private forum, on what basis would participants be approved? There are plenty of people who identify as Catholics and who will post opinions which you might consider not Catholic or not Christian.

Victor

hinault wrote: »

Is there any chance that the moderators would consider creating a Catholic subforum where Catholics here can discuss and exchange views?

Do you mean Catholic or Roman Catholic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicism

The "Christianity" section of this site is populated by "contributions" from posters who have no real interest in "Christianity" and are instead in posting content advocating anything other than Christian values and Christian ethos.

the point has been made that this is a discussion forum. On a discussion forum, not everyone will agree on your point of view. You are unlikely to get a 'catholic only' forum where only church-approved matters / points of view can be discussed.

If there are people being off-topic and/or trolling, that is a matter for the charter and/or enforcement.

Chucken

hinault wrote: »

Is there any chance that the moderators would consider creating a Catholic subforum where Catholics here can discuss and exchange views?

The "Christianity" section of this site is populated by "contributions" from posters who have no real interest in "Christianity" and are instead in posting content advocating anything other than Christian values and Christian ethos.

I read this forum as a Christian/ Irish, no choice catholic. I have been freaked by your posts hinault

Peregrinus

Chucken wrote: »

I read this forum as a Christian/ Irish, no choice catholic. I have been freaked by your posts hinault

Well, hinault doesn't actually say anything at all about Irishness, does he?

But, yes, he does skip rather glibly between "Christian" and "Catholic". His concern is that non-Christian perspectives are aired on in the Christianity forum, and he asks for that to be addressed by the establishment of a "Catholicism" forum. That doesn't quite stack up for me; if posters can air non-Christian views in the Christianity forum (and they can, and do), what would stop them doing so in the proposed "Catholicism" forum?

I don't think we should conclude that hinault intends to say that only Catholic views are truly Christian, or anything of that kind. Whether hinault's conception of genuinely Christian view is very broad or very narrow, he hasn't proposed any mechanism that would keep non-Christian views out of the suggested new forum.

Benny_Cake

This suggestion was made at least once before: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055952595

It might be worth having a read over the thread before making the request for a new forum. The objections are quite sensible and little has changed in the meantime.

Delirium

MOD NOTE

Locking this as it is a request for a new forum.

Mods have no ability to create sub-forums of the forums they mod.

As Peregrinus correctly pointed out, the Forum Request is the correct place to make the request.

As this is a discussion forum,(Chrisitian and non-Christian) posters are allowed to contribute to a thread once they don't breach the charter.

Thanks for your attention