Find in this section Order an avatar Order a title Get a private board The FAQs Board guidelines 10 Commandments Who's what?     Dead Horses Dead Horses is where we send discussion threads that have been debated endlessly on the Ship of Fools boards before. The reason we do this is so that predictable subjects are confined to one area, allowing more creative and original topics to have the run of the other boards. Here are a few basic rules to guide you... 1. Types of threads This board is dedicated to those topics that recur with tedious regularity on nearly every multi-denominational religious debate forum on the internet. Specifically: biblical inerrancy, homosexuality, the role of women, evolution, abortion, closed communion and bitching about church music. If you want to talk about any aspect of those subjects, post your thread here. 2. The rules Dead Horses is really an extension of Purgatory, so not only do the Ship of Fools 10 Commandments apply, so do the Purgatory guidelines. We ask that you respect your fellow contributors by adhering to them. 3. Qualifying for Dead Horse status Not every hotly-debated subject qualifies for Dead Horse treatment. We've established the following guidelines to identify dead horses: > topics that tend to come up regularly on nearly all Christian bulletin boards, and consequently tend to clutter up such boards in a manner that discourages debate on other topics and give a false impression of the Ship as unrestful > topics for which there will be no answer this side of the afterlife > arguments which feature polarized, deeply entrenched positions, and where opposition is taken personally > topics which cause huge headaches for the Hosts who must moderate them Dead Horses is not for things we're tired of, things that people disagree deeply about, or general arguments that go nowhere. It's really about keeping the usual detritus from Christian bulletin boards from cluttering up the Ship. It helps to keep us unrestful and different.   Keep taking the tablets When did you last read the 10 commandments? They're here. Got a question? For answers to those burning Ship of Fools questions, pay a visit to our FAQs pages.