So whatever happened to...

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5. Thanks everybody. I was just wondering.

That whole thing played out the way I expected.

A bluff was made, called, then flushed down the Memory Hole. Which sounds exactly like a lot of the threads in Religion, but I digress.

When all the demands for such a group were flying, I distinctly remember some posts like this:

"We need a group where a Xian can ask a Sikh about their beliefs, where a Catholic can respectfully talk to a Jew, yadda-yadda-yadda...without these mouthy non-believers barging in to tell us we believe in fairy tales."

(I'm too lazy to go hunting, but if PROOF!1! is demanded, I can go and find them.)

Well, they already HAVE that group - it's called "Religion."

I see various believers having yak-fests in there all the time without non-believers barging in. At least until the first post about "fundamentalist atheists" or the like, then the fun begins. But that's an invitation for us to join in, I'd think.

Also, I very rarely see Sikhs, Muslims, Jews, Hindus or atheists/agnostics complaining about the Religion group.

As skepticscott noted above: Claiming to lack a place to themselves was just another way for some of the "liberal" and "progressive" believers here to play victim (again).

What a surprise! That would be exactly the same people who were promising a New World Order in the Religion group not so long ago. Once they got rid of a few "malcontents," i.e., non-believers. (Check Meta for that discussion.)