Mr Meacham & Ms. Quinn:

I thought Interfaith Forums would provide some insight into various religious conflicts.

On Eboo Patel's forum, however, what reigns is HATRED. That does not help promote any rational discussion on sensitive differences. Not useful to any 'Inter-faith' dialogue. The discussion needs to be moderated to see it doesn't get into a gutter.

A wasted opportunity.

Please take a look !

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"WASHINGTON POST : 'FAITH' FORUM EDITORS (and/or EBOO PATEL)

Isn't there some place in Washington Post for this kind of INTENSE HATRED, like in this CCNL Post ?

CCNL | March 22, 2009 9:54 PM

And, those of CLEARTHINKING1 !

AN ABUSE OF THIS 'INTER-FAITH' EFFORT !

Posted by: cantabb1 | March 23, 2009 8:11 AM"

lets do it!

how to say? united? together? we look at PostGlobal, still needs work to come : )

thank You. not different from Washington Post newspaper edition.

and also practical. advanced and modern, with advanced utilities and ease for authors and readers and commentors to unite and follow.

so white to look at. but getting acquainted with.

I like the new layout; it's easier for aging eyes to read posts having more contrast on the page. But, I would like to see the posters' names at the top of their post. Also, in other websites I've seen a place at the top of the page to choose the order of display, either newest or oldest messages first.

"...thou hast tried (or tested) them which say THEY ARE APOSTLES, and are NOT, and hast found them LIARS." (Reveleation 2:2)

Only the Catholic Church claim that their popes are the NEW APOSTLES of Christ. The verse above is for them.

It is called Revelation because it pertains about the future. We are living that "future" now and the LIES that God was talking about.

This has been a LYING CHURCH as God has foretold.

Logic3, you should read the Bible and try to understand it so you would know that you guys were duped.

"...no man cometh unto the Father BUT BY ME"

Only Christ is the way and He is the KEY himself. You guys trust your faith on men and never on the WORD OF GOD.

The Vatican will burn in the near future and your so called apostolic succession will cease coz it's a fairy tale. It never was and never will be. It's all prophecied in the Bible so watch for it.

Spidermean, There is only One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church which was instituted by Jesus Christ Himself. He gave Peter the Key to Heaven and as we all know Saint Peter was the First Pope, Holy Father, Vicar of Christ,if you will and currently Benedict XVI is seated in Peter's Holy Chair; thus he is called The Holy Father. There would be no Christian Religion, if it were not for the Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church has The Sacred Tradition, The Holy Scriptures, and The Magisterium. All other Christain Communities are Solo Scripture. Obviously, by your comments, you have no understanding about the Truth or the Fullness of the Christain Faith.

Logic3, the act of naming somebody or oneself as "Holy Father" is BLASPHEMOUS. The Vatican and Catholicism is guilty of this and for that reason, Catholics will have a hard time going to heaven.

The Vatican is the seat of Satan.

Married couples using condoms does not sin. It's NOT the condom that is the issue here. It's the fornication.

The Vatican is the seat of Satan so beware.

The Holy Father does not work for you, he works for God the Father. The Holy Father knows that Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Marriage and that is the only time you should have sex. To teach, not to use condoms, is the "Holy" and "Only" way to go. If you cannot restrain you have an obsession problem and that is not good. There are consequences when you are "out of control" and to use sex as an recreational activity is sick. I am sure that Washington DC hands out free condoms and yet your city has an epidemic of HIV/AIDs problem, just like Africa. Condoms are known to have a "20% physical failure rate". I say condoms have a "100% moral failure rate".
The Pope is trying to save people's Souls. So, I do not think anybody on earth is qualified to critize the Pope.

Martinquarry wrote " Evolution tries out everything, but only the best-adapting or most sexually attractive sticks around. None of what you argue for has any evidence that it was intelligently designed, but there is mountains of evidence that it was (and is) just nature."

Just for your info, we study nature because of its inherent science. In other words, nature is intelligently made. So intelligent that upto now, nobody has yet fully understood it.

If you don't believe that proposition, consider this : this new On Faith layout consumes more energy than the previous design and that extra enegy transforms to glare.

That is science unlike your purely fantastic assumptions about evolution.

Evolution is NOT a science but is just a concoction of stupid ideas. What makes this world dangerous is the fact that many people believe that stupidity.

The new layout and (lack of) colors look awful, and I the site harder to navigate.

Another couple of comments. I liked it better when open tabs in my browser would name the panelist on whose string I was commenting. I often would have a couple strings of interest opened and could easily see who was who. (A similar issue of obscuring individuality?) I have to believe that the programming was changed for titling tabs as a part of the format changes.
Is it possible to number entries? In both the old and new format it can be seen how many responses have been posted, but in neither is it obvious on the comment page.
I like that the panelists essay and all comments are put to one page instead of kept separate.

Why can't you provide individual RSS feeds for your panelists?

No, Spidermean,

The colors that please you were there first, and our eyes evolved to interpret those wavelenghts in a way that was pleasing to us. In short, the organisms that saw blue and green as "blue" and "green" did much better than the ones whose eyes interpreted those colors more harshly, or not at all.

It's the same reason that two eyes work better than one or three, and warm-blooded animals with fur did better than those who wasted too much internal energy keeping comfortably warm.

Once humans' minds evolved enough to think as they do now, less "fur" was favored. Smooth sexy women had a much easier time passing on their genes than gruff hairy ones, and our collective physical appearance evolved to reflect that.

Evolution tries out everything, but only the best-adapting or most sexually attractive sticks around. None of what you argue for has any evidence that it was intelligently designed, but there is mountains of evidence that it was (and is) just nature.

Hello On Faith staff.

I can appreciate the desire to evolve and improve a site, and the concept of adjusting an environment for a desired affect. I can also understand the need to include in a site ways to more easily connect with in house departments, causes and clients.

However I do not find these changes to be improvements to my eye nor do they facilitate my ease of reading, dialoguing or conversing with others. In fact it is the opposite. I have a harder time reading comments, scrolling through to points of interest, getting an overview of a string. I am sure that we adjust to new formats, but I am just as sure that some formats just work better than others. Not all the changes I dislike, but the overall experience so far is not enjoyable to me and makes me less interested to participate.

One of the most glaring problems for me, for instance, is that I cannot see who it is that is authoring a comment until I get to the bottom of the post. So I either have to go blind and read top to bottom or scroll down to see who it is, and then scroll back up to read from the beginning. Up down up down... yuck. Down, then out. It counters the flow of the brains sorting of information and so becomes a 'headache'.

The blue was better, in my opinion. It is not essential and could be seen past. I do not like that the weeks question is not central and fully stated on the main page. I like the way that photos of panelists are added, but cannot click on them directly to go to their submission. The cartoony dialogue box is cute, though.

There is more. I will give peace a chance and try it a bit more. If you could get authorship identity to the top of the comment it would help a lot for me.

It used to be a "special" section because of its background color, which is different from the rest. Now it looks like the rest.

Learn from nature. Did you ever wonder why the sky and the ocean is blue and the plants and grasses green? It is so because it's COOL to the eyes. It's called INTELLIGENT DESIGN. It's not just about chlorophyll in plants or something about water.

The white background as against the shade of blue is too glaring to the eyes.