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Again, that applies in the public square but not on a private forum. If I go to a movie and you decide to preach the gospel the owners of the theater will toss you out and rightly so because that is NOT what we came there for!


yet if we are at a movie and someone quietly asks an acquaintance to pray for some situation he most certainly would NOT be kicked out of the theater.

On the other hand, if somebody who overhears the request and stirs up a bunch of dissention trying to make that person stop asking for prayer... the one stirring up a fuss probably would get kicked out

From my point of view, the ones who change an otherwise pleasant and community-based discussion into an argument are always the same ones who try to shut down the discussion on the grounds that such discussion creates bad feelings... when they are the ones who introduced contention in the first place!

It isn't religious discussion that causes bad feelings... it is the purposeful introduction of sniping