This is almost a modern-day Creed in song form. :P - Manifesto by The City Harmonic

Also one of the most epic Christian songs I've heard.

Caleb: Nice to see that you have now finally chosen to be honest and abandon the pretense of "Christianity is whatever self-identifies as Christianity" that this SE site claims to hold

saying things like "The content of this answer in no way represents the doctrinal position of any form of "Christianity"." and " the issue would be raised about whether those groups even claim to be Christian in a way that would make their theology relevant to this site"

when my form quite obviously does self-identify as Christian

so even leaving aside the "but you have no sources" window-dressing, it clearly meets at leas the "it's Christianity if it self-identifies as Christianity" criterion

@Caleb

didn't do it right at first, sorry

how is someone who so clearly rejects such a basic principle of this site a moderator?

@SteelyDan Have you asked the StackExchange team why they chose Caleb as a pro-tem mod?

oh, so they're to blame?

@SteelyDan We haven't had elections yet, being in Beta and all...

@SteelyDan Could you point to the offending comments? It helps to know a bit of context, I think.

@El'endiaStarman That's a great song. It sure helps that it relies so heavily on the traditional creeds of Christianity.

@SteelyDan On your answer that was deleted, you didn't cite any sources. It sort of seems like you were using the answer as a soapbox for your views. It's hard to know how that particular answer could be useful for learning about Christianity. (Though it does help us learn about your beliefs.)

(I'm not sure about Affable Geek's question, but it does seem like there should be a minimum bar of some sort. Do you know anyone else who shares your belief system?)

way to completely miss the point

did you actually read what I just said?

"so even leaving aside the "but you have no sources" window-dressing, it clearly meets at leas the "it's Christianity if it self-identifies as Christianity" criterion"

it's Caleb's apparent rejection of even that basic principle that I'm objecting to at the moment

as would be quite clear if you had, you know, actually read what I said to introduce all this

@SteelyDan I did read that. But I'm suggesting the principle applies to groups and not individuals. What I'm curious about is if you identify with anyone else?

I mean, there are Christian atheists. Do you identify with any of them?

two other individuals that I know of

@SteelyDan Well, that's a start. Are they published (even in blog form)?

no

but the sourcing matter is separate

but if you actually had in fact read, you would know that that was not the point I was objecting to in the instant case

@SteelyDan Actually, I think it isn't. We're really trying to establish a site where people can get useful information about the Christian faith. I'm will to go to bat for even obscure and under-appreciated traditions, but not at the cost of losing an academic focus. References and citations are a key to good scholarship.

Don't patronize me...

@SteelyDan I don't think the purpose of the site is to give everyone who calls themselves a Christian unlimited space to discuss their unique philosophies. I can safely say that's true all across Stack Exchange.

@JonEricson I think that's really the matter here: we want to allow as much as we can (obscure/small denominations) while keeping it academic (references/support) and sensible for the site (no Buddhism, etc).

There are a lot of Buddhists who consider themselves Christians, though

have you just admitted that you, too, would like to suppress forms of Christianity that make you uncomfortable?

@SteelyDan And the group of Christian Buddhists would be allowed on this site, given that they have a corpus.

@SteelyDan I'm someone who supported a fellow who used the Sensus Plenior method of hermeneutics on BH. It's very hard to cite sources for that. But he worked hard to comply and we got some great answers.

I've got to go, but I'll check back tomorrow. G'night all.

@JonEricson G'night!

Let's hope our new design doesn't use the Holiest font ever.

We also need a logo with a score of either 0 or > 15. Either way.