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2:43 AM

Q: Is there an option to specify your religious affiliation?

Can we have an optional description on our profile about personal religious affiliation? To specify our religious belief. For example, Lutheran Missouri Synod or Byzantine rite Catholic. People can leave this description empty, but those who might want to specify their religious affiliation can u...

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Does Elisha speak?

3:17 AM

Q: Is there an option to message a member privately or to contact by email?

Is there a way to contact a member privately, like on Facebook; or to contact by email?

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Does Elisha speak?

4:25 AM

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Q: Is there a good advice to improve my question?

I recently posted two questions: Was Emperor St. Justinian an Aphthartodocetist?. What caused Protestantism and Inquisition in the history of Eastern Orthodox Church?. Is there a good advice on how to improve my questions so that more people will be interested to answer it? I've tried to prov...

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curiousdannii

6:58 AM

@mods Any reason the holy-ghost tag shouldn't be made a synonym? There's no direct holy-spirit tag currently as it's a synonym of pneumatology. I wonder if there should be separately out, just like how we have different tags for jesus and christology.

fredsbend

What a jerk

curiousdannii

7:14 AM

No great loss

Look what I just got! christianity.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/copy-editor

Caleb

@curiousdannii Welcome to a very elite club!

At this rate we're collecting one member per year ;-)

Caleb

7:31 AM

@fredsbend I'm not sure that tantrum dignified a response, but I just did anyway.

fredsbend

7:48 AM

@Caleb Yeah, I remember his question. And he comments too when we tried to help him. I wouldn't expect a better from him on your meta post.

Caleb

@fredsbend A link to your "types of questions" meta post was in the very first comment he received on his first question. I don't have much sympathy for his "nobody tried to help" argument.

fredsbend

@Caleb Since we're on the topic, I feel like the types of questions meta post needs a rewrite. What do you think?

I don't feel like it's serving it's purpose of helping new users.

Caleb

@fredsbend I agree. I've thought that for a while but haven't been inspired to fix it either.

fredsbend

Rather, just seems like an analysis that is passively looked at and people go 'meh.'

@Caleb What do you think it's missing?

aside from the links to deleted questions.

which I'll remedy via webarchive.

someday.

Caleb

@fredsbend I don't think that's a problem. If anything I would generalize it with pseudo questions that make the point of explaining the class without being weighed down by the details of actual questions.

Sort of like I did here:

A: What does "show your work" mean in the context of exegesis?

Exegesis of Biblical texts is also on topic for several other StackExchange sites whose respective scopes are limited to a particular religious tradition. What makes us different from those sites is that here, our focus is primarily on the process of hermeneutical analysis, not the final output o...

And I'd take a more tutorial bead on the problem rather than doing a post-mortem.

fredsbend

8:00 AM

@Caleb Yes, this helps. After all, it did originate as a "post-mortem". I had the idea to classify the types of questions then scoured through my question, verified how common the types were with other users, then made a list. It was very much like cataloging a new group of species.

Caleb

We have an older (and despite my name being on it, it was a collaborative thing) post about question types that might need revisiting too:

Q: What makes a good focused question?

In response to Can we reverse the trend on low quality posts? we would like to propose the following thoughts on what defines a good focused question. The primary focus of this site is a place to ask questions about Christianity. We have identified a couple of key aspects of constructive questi...

discussion faq allowed-questions asking-questions questions

Perhaps reformatting your post-mortem as an answer / follow up to that post that takes a slightly different approach. That way we could link people to one place to get the full scope from a couple angles.

Just at thought.

fredsbend

@Caleb Maybe. I would think the name narrows down the elements of a good focused question, where the the other is meant to be a sample or more of a 'how to'. hmmmm. I think they both could use a rewrite. Let me think on this. It's late and I'm pretty sick.

c-ya later.

Caleb

@fredsbend Geçmiş olsun!

fredsbend

8:19 AM

@Caleb umarım.

iyi geceler

Bu doğru mudur?

Caleb

@fredsbend Evet!

fredsbend

Google translate . Kısa cümleleri için oldukça iyi çalışır , ben buluyorum .

Caleb

@fredsbend LOL, that's a bit long for it. I can make out where you were going, but it should have been more like "Ben Google Tralslate'in kısa cümleler için oldukça iyi çalıştığını düşünüyorum." You know, just in case you ever have to say exactly that again.

TRiG

> In 1952, Congress passed a law establishing the National Day of Prayer as an annual religious observance. Quick: give me another sentence that uses the words “Congress,” “law,” “establish” and “religion.”

TRiG

9:30 AM

@curiousdannii I only have 119 edits. Seems I have a bit of catching up to do.

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Flimzy

6:25 PM

Considering your comments limiting verses to the Gospels and that your quote concerns a politician that doesn't even claim to be Christian, I feel like you are trying to pigeonhole answers into a little box. We don't have a close vote for that, but I'm going to opt for "unclear what you are asking". Also, the other three very similar questions show that the topic is deeper than your post reveals your knowledge of. — fredsbend 17 hours ago

@fredsbend: But Obama does claim to be Christian. And he has for years.

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TRiG

7:42 PM

Also, this is hilarious.

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Flimzy

9:24 PM

fredsbend

10:09 PM

@Caleb lol. Yeah, just in case, I'll file that away. Coincidentally, I really want to visit Istanbul one day, so I'll speak a little Turkish sometime in the future.

@Flimzy Yes, I'm not sure what I was thinking. Probably along the lines of the very non-christian, non-religions things he has said also. I made a comment on the post.

I don't believe Bye is asking a genuine question and his comments show/showed that.

@Flimzy There's aren't enough words for that.

@TRiG lol. That's a very interesting thing, indeed. Does "prayer" inherently endorse or otherwise support any specific religions over another?

user58869

why do people make the sign of the cross when they pass a church?