Makes you wonder if they ever debate anything or just tell each other how the rest of the world is evil and agree that they agree on the Bible's teachings.
Oh, that's easy - they don't.
I lurk on rr frequently. There is no debate there. Debate is simply not allowed.
For instance just recently, somebody posted a thread asking when everybody went from just believing in Jesus to actually knowing as a fact that he existed. After various nice stories of conversion and such, one guy pointed out that they didn't really
know he existed, it was all about faith and belief. He was told to move it to their "apologetics" forum (which is invisible to non members, so I can only imagine what kinds of ass-kickings the believers get in there). He made another post explaining that all he meant was that belief and certainty are not the same, no matter how strong the belief. That was his last post; they accused him of being an atheist and banned him outright on the spot.
Typical RR thread - not a parody, this is another perfectly real thread from a few months ago :
"I was in a ball game the other day and I saw two girls holding hands and then they kissed! I am so disgusted! Why is this even allowed!"
Followed by thirty or forty replies saying variants of "It saddens me so much that people are beholden to satan like that. This world is sooooo evil. Come soon Lord Jesus!"
The only counterpoint on that thread was when somebody asked if it isn't just as bad to see men and women kissing in public (they agreed it was, though funnily enough you never see threads started about that for some reason). That's about as high as the level of questioning gets.
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only that is ever actually debated is bible verses and how people interpret them. The bible itself is never to be questioned in the slightest, but they can argue about what verses are referring to, what particular words mean, which translation is best, etc.
It's really quite a fascinating place. It's like watching an ant colony.