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Originally Posted by msmith
As a new member, I really didn't expect to be tarred and feathered and have a hundred posts after mine in a matter of 24 hours for expressing a simple opinion.
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Msmith, garnering over a hundred replies so quickly
is a bit unusual. But it is
because you expressed an opinion, and a controversial one at that. I suspect that you didn't realise that it was likely to stimulate such a lively discussion.
If you had posted a question on how to recharge the reader, (or anything calling for a factual answer) then a couple of people would have given you the solution and that would be that.
But opinions are different. By now you'll have noticed that everyone here has one, and that they don't always agree. In addition, we have members from all over the world and so, with their different backgrounds, they have different ideas about religion and diversity.
The hundred replies shows that the topic is interesting. Also, the topic was broadened in later posts (including mine) so that wider issues were discussed. This happens quite a lot on MR.
I am sorry that you feel that you've been "tarred and feathered." I don't think that was the intention of most of the posters. I think that the majority just saw an interesting discussion with strong contemporary resonances and jumped right in. And discussions online can quite "robust".
Incidentally do take a look at our book upload section, which contains a fair number of books on religion, including Christianity. There are Bibles, Apocryphas, lives of the saints, texts by Christian mystics and devotional works.