In Reply to: Do we need separate boards? posted by WC (reposted) on September 30, 2006 at 12:53:22:
Posted by CB on September 30, 2006 at 12:07:38
In Reply to: Do we need to divide Journeys into two separate boards? posted by WC (reposted) on September 30, 2006 at 09:16:03:
I don't think you need two boards. As a progressive Christian, I sometimes feel caught in the cross-fire between Christian-identified fundies and Humanist-identified agnostics & atheists, since I practice Christian humanism. Basically, I get offended by both ends of the pole at times.
You've tried a Christian board before. Why go there again? NDN fills this need for me. When I want to feel safe to express my journey using biblical language and the Christian idioms, I post at NDN. I want a place to go where I can listen to the reasoned arguments of humanists and other non-Christians. OK, so the arguments aren't always reasoned out well, but there is at least a desire on the part of the humanist, atheist, buddhist, queer, 12 stepping, islamic taoists to voice a world view and spiritual journey in their own terms.
As you stated in your other post on Journeys, Christians will inevitably post on the non-believers board and the spiritually different will post on the Christian board. As a bi-spiritual person, I'd end up in both places getting hammered for refusing to get off the fence.
Here's the bottom line as I see it: Some people (myself included) have issues that make it difficult for them to always participate in on an online discussion in a respectful & civil manner. One of the biggest problems many of exers have involves an inability to recognize and respect someone else's emotional, spiritual, and psychological boundaries.
It seems to me that Journeys--as well as the Gen-X board--is a place to learn about respecting diversity. The biggest lesson for me of late has been to understand and appreciate how everyone's experience of being in TF is different. That increased awareness happened on this site, not NDN or xfamily or MO.