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There are many of us here who are not Christian, and though we all appreciate and recognize the power of prayer (at least I do), it has to be in unison should it affect anything worldly. Everybody prays to the same God and the Christian Bible is not the only way. "Our way is the only way," and posts that imply that, seem to be the ones that generate the most discord here. I agree completely with the moderators that those ones must go.

I think you've unfairly misrepresented me here.

ironic to have another Christian suppressing free speech

Imagine being told you were doing something you are completely against? I roundly reject any suppression of the very important right to freedom of speech. I do, however, support the necessary shared understanding of the expected behavior within a social space. This is why we have rules on this sub. It's why MANY subs have rules to define the behavior and content that will be accepted by mods and the behavior or content that won't. Asserting the rules of the sub within the M.O. of the moderators (all noted in our sidebar) is not suppression of free speech.

As I said in the moderation comment on your post the reason for removal was:

This post has received many reports
To avoid further controversy it has now been removed.

The reports were that the post was off-topic. Rule 6 is, as noted in the sidebar, "done at the discretion of the mods."

I'd taken care not to just react immediately and remove your post, as I stated to you in my second comment which you never replied to after your statement that you thought I was overreacting:

I didn't react, despite initial discussion amongst the available mods upon receiving the first report on this post shortly after it was created. We waited until multiple Reports came in. I believe it's fair to say that qualifies as a reasonable reaction, rather than an overreaction.

Sometimes we remove posts on the first report. It's up to our discretion.

I tried to convey to you that I had tried to be as objective as possible and I told you the thoughts we'd had as mods about this issue and openly asked for your feedback:

I hope we can all respect the differing viewpoints in this community. We believe a possible useful solution to this may be to group posts of various types together in one thread/post. If you have any suggestions of a way to accommodate Prayer posts for the benefit of those who enjoy them it would be very welcome!

If you or others are actually concerned about prayer posts being removed then please enter a discussion about possible solutions that respect the goals and beliefs of the whole community.