# Change in Great Debates forum description

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784>\
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**Created:** [July 29, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784 "2022-07-29T15:26:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784/1 "2022-07-29T15:26:55Z")

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We’ve changed the Great Debates forum description to read as follows:

“For long-running discussions of the great questions of our time. This is also the place for religious debates. Other discussion of religion, religious figures, personal beliefs and the like typically belongs in the IMHO or MPSIMS forums.”

This change does two things: (1) clarifies that Great Debates is for religious debates only, not general discussion of religion, and (2) drops the reference to witnessing, which was not well understood and confused matters.

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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784/2 "2022-07-29T19:40:58Z")

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With God as my witness, this is a good rule change.

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**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784/3 "2022-07-29T20:05:43Z")

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Reported for witnessing in the wrong forum.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784/4 "2022-07-29T21:45:51Z")

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> [@Pleonast](#):
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> With God as my witness, this is a good rule change.

Testify!

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784/5 "2022-07-29T22:39:12Z")

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I pray this silliness ends soon, by God.

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784/6 "2022-07-29T22:40:09Z")

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> [@Pleonast](#):
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> With God as my witness

> [@JeffB](#):
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> Reported for witnessing

You are reporting God?  
Ballsy move.

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-in-great-debates-forum-description/968784/7 "2022-07-29T23:05:38Z")

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> [@Riemann](#):
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> You are reporting God?

Yahweh, Holy Ghost, Jesus… if that isn’t a clear case of multiple sock accounts what is?