Welp, they found us.

My $.02: they make some excellent points in their thread about this thread.

And thus y'all tempt me out of my lurkership. I am so beyond pathetic. Now, before I say anything else, I want to apologize to y'all. I'm a moody, arrogant *** and y'all've been quite wonderful in dealing with it. Y'all were the first real friends I've ever had, and I owe a great deal to y'all. With that sappy stuff on the way, I say sic 'em. I agree that we may be a bit on the dysfunctional site, but we don't pretend to be holier than thou. "Gay-activist friendly?" Someone want to tell me what's wrong with being friends with gay-activists?

[b]KattyKit wrote:[/b] [quote]And thus y'all tempt me out of my lurkership. I am so beyond pathetic. Now, before I say anything else, I want to apologize to y'all. I'm a moody, arrogant *** and y'all've been quite wonderful in dealing with it. Y'all were the first real friends I've ever had, and I owe a great deal to y'all. With that sappy stuff on the way, I say sic 'em. I agree that we may be a bit on the dysfunctional site, but we don't pretend to be holier than thou. "Gay-activist friendly?" Someone want to tell me what's wrong with being friends with gay-activists?[/quote] Not to get all sappy or anything, but... I love you, sis. *high five* In other news, MyPraize is now classified as a manure pile.

Okay, someone link me please to this thread. Edit: Nevermind, I easily found it myself, sadly enough. Anyway, just to put this out there, while we encourage you guys to join them and their conversations (as it seems that each party could learn from and teach each other in this situation), I do ask that we not make an attempt to tarnish the MyPraize name. This is not West Side Story, we are not the sharks. We are a welcoming forum community, and we are looking to branch out with welcoming arms, not thorny ones. I mean, at the rate it's going right now, we might as well put up a "do not enter" sign, and that's really upsetting to those of us who enjoy new people poking around. If you must join them, then do so with an open heart and mind, not with the childish attitude that throwing snowballs won't have repercussions. They're not "out to get" anyone (except maybe those darn'd pro-gays. :P ) What they did, they did, and it's not like no one's been banned on here before either. No one storms MyPraize just because Dante has been banned before. Why do we do so to them? To those from the other site who are peering at us from behind the internet, let me welcome you. We do encourage you to join us here, so we may make some amends, connections, and work with each other to both question and validate belief systems. As you have probably seen, we have lively conversations and debates, though we are all quite close with each other. Don't let the debate forum fool you. ;)

I just deleted my own post; but it was a good one for fun. Oh well. Darn you, Kattykit ! :P Whoops! I meant TheMadHatter!!! *Groans*

It's not the fact that he was banned that got me upset. But the constant attacks and insults. And even attacking and insulting him after he was banned.

I've found our site isn't any better about the whole "insult" thing. I know for a fact some users are still brought up in comparison, or just to make fun of them. Did you ever call them out on it? As they call our behavior being un-Christlike, maybe they can see the error in their ways as well if someone would show them.

I just want to extend a welcome to any from F&F looking here... Yes, we can get angry with each other here, as I'm sure you've seen from other posts here, but at the end of the day, we remain a family... There is some anger here, due to the treatment of our brother, Brandon, who did not join your forums in order to stir up strife, but because he thought he could have some interesting conversation with you... Your poor reception of him, and deliberate taking his words out of context, has indeed angered a number of the family here, as you can plainly see... I was actually invited there by Brandon, who said that there was interesting conversation to be had there... I did not join when he first brought it up because I had very limited internet connection at the time... I hope to continue having interesting conversation there, and sincerely hope that some of you will join our family here and really get to know us... I would like to point out that a number of you said that Brandon was not a follower of Jesus as the Messiah, though he plainly stated that he was a great number of times... As I said, I welcome you here, and truly hope that we can have great conversation on both forums...

Yeah you peeps from the other site, Memnonkarana is right. Brandon was or still is a Messianic Jew. That means a Jew who believes in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, The Anointed (Consecrated, Holy) One of God.