Dragon Star wrote:I just don't want to to be my fault when I regret asking the question in the first place, if you feel the need to make your own thread then so be it, but I highly suggest you don't. Lonewulf I respect your opinion and share some of your views, but there is no reason to make comments against someone's belief, despite your own.
No one has to join the discussion that does not want to. I am not pointing a gun at anyone's head and forcing them into the thread. Further, I promise to be respectful of those that are respectful of my beliefs. Plus, it wouldn't be your fault at all, it would be the fault of people that allowed themselves to be drawn into such a question (and yes, that means that it would very well be partly my fault).
There is plenty of reasons to make comments against someone's belief, however, if the comments are respectful, warranted, on-topic, allowed (by the forum moderator), and said at the proper time and place.
Within his thread was a bad place to post such a comment. It was a thread that was mourning the death of a friend. For that, I would not deviate from the original topic, as that is disrespectful, and the issue of religion is really not as important as that of his emotional vestment in his friend, and the times they shared. I feel that he should both mourn his friend's death, and yet celebrate his friend's life. That's my personal belief, anyways.
Within this thread, however, it was specifically on the meaning of RIP on the gravestone, which leads directly to talking about graves and the afterlife. Thus, it's more on-topic to discuss such a matter, and is not directly on the fate of St. Jimmy's friend. However, you requested people not post into it, so I will take my question and issue to another thread, where it can be discussed by people willing to partake in such discussion, to treat each other as they are treated, and to respect beliefs insofar as their beliefs are respected.
I really don't see the problem with that if it is handled by mature adults that are willing to see this, instead of people that are willing to take it personally and as an attack. I really do respect St. Jimmy's feelings for his friend, and I forgive some of his comments made in the passion of his anger and do not take them personally, nor take them as a fault to his character.
