That's Enough Religious Bores

I shall start by simply asking.

 

But I think this blog is being quietly strangled by people who turn every single thread into a theological argument. It doesn't matter what the subject is. These people could turn a discussion of cheese on toast into a row about the Jehovah's Witnesses, Bible literalism or the Koran. In fact I may myself contribute a comment shortly in which I manage to introduce these subjects into a discussion of cheese on toast. It would make a good competition in the 'New Statesman' or 'Spectator' .

 

The rest of us (including me) are just so bored by this incessant( and frankly not very illuminating) theology , and I am sure many people don't comment any more because they quickly get the impression that, unless their comment is theologically tinged, they are not really part of the debate.

 

I used to enjoy reading the comments here. Increasingly, I find my eye sliding over them. Religious comments are of course perfectly acceptable on overtly religious topics. But they get in the way of discussing other matters. If there are contributors here who wnat to argue about these matters, I suggest they set up their own site where they may do so to their heart's content. 

 

To paraphrase Edmund Burke 'This blog cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less there is within, the more there must be without'.

 

I do hope that a word is enough for the wise.