So one of the main contributors over at Millennialstar.org quickly posted today about how their blog is a place for "believing members", implying right off the bat that everyone who gets moderated is not a believing member. There was no effort to clarify this either, it was only supported throughout the arrogant, pompous justification of a post. The post also went on to mention how merely following the guidelines for commenting won't guarantee your comment being posted. So the guidelines put a line in the sand, distinguishing two sides. What they don't tell you (until now) that there is an infinitesimally large grey area separating the two sides where moderators can arbitrarily delete your comment, depending on subjective bias. If they don't agree with you, no warning, you aren't participating.
So I get it. This is a blog owned by fundamentalists where they like to gather and congratulate each other on blind rule following, paying minimal fast offerings and reading scriptures off their ipads. Fine.
What I don't agree with is the facade or front they put in place claiming to be open-minded and seeking out the conversations about concepts and ideas that have room for discussion in the church. They set up the game, tell everyone the rules, then bust out the secret code that nobody else knows about and play by their own rule book while everyone else is not only in the dark, but usually falls victim individually, like a 3-legged fawn surrounded by large, hungry lions.
MillennialStar, and many others deserve to be shunned. Their moderators, authors, etc. play an unfair game to make themselves feel better about their belief system. They are a poison and their superficial knowledge of selective topics is sickening as they boast of themselves and flaunt a "deeper knowledge" through serious scholasticism, only to find that what they truly have is a rudimentary knowledge of selective apologetics.
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