That having been said, we recognize that this forum is not in the support portion of the site and that much of what goes on here is not teens coming with religious problems seeking help.  This fact does not, however, somehow nullify what is the overarching theme of LiveWire.  Thus, the Religion and Philosophy forum will be a place of relative civility where all member may feel safe to express and explore their beliefs without fear of molestation.

The religion forum does not have any special guidelines aside from the general guidelines of the site as some forums do.  However, what follow are how one might expect to find these guidelines enforced in the Religion and Philosophy forum.

• The LiveWire guideline dealing with discriminatory content specifically names religion as one of the areas which members are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of.  This means that comments of a negative nature are to be directed at religions, philosophies, and ethical systems, not adherents to any of the above.  Examples of unacceptable posts might include, but wouldn't be limited to, things like "Christians are stupid" or "Muslims are terrorists."  Members of every religion and school of thought must feel safe to post in the forum, so discrimination of this type will not be tolerated.

• LiveWire prohibits topics that are solely meant to seek attention.  Thus, topics which have no other discernable purpose except to stir up controversy will be deleted.  An example might be "All homosexuals should be stoned, because the Bible says so."

• LiveWire requires that posts in a topic contribute to that topic.  The temptation in threads about ideologies is to automatically disagree with a poster who espouses a belief you find offensive or unacceptable.  Inasmuch as those posts don't contribute to topics, they will be removed.  For example, posting "I don't talk to imaginary friends" in a topic made by a Christian wanting to know about prayer is unacceptable.  The same is also true of a post such as "believing in God is the only way to escape hell" in a topic made by an atheist expressing a new found lack of belief in a deity.

• LiveWire prohibits spamming, that is the posting of pointless material.  To that end, the Religion and Philosophy forum will not tolerate topics without original material by the author.  Copy and paste topics from polemical sites of any nature are forbidden.  Posting links, images, or videos without authorial input are forbidden.  This is spam.

• Images that are of such a nature as to potentially be used to replace posts are not allowed as they promote spamming.  Images of this type that are used in posts will result in an editing or total deletion of the post and the deletion of that image from the users basket.

• LiveWire prohibts attention seeking and annoying topics.  I think we can all agree that topics with the primary purpose of evangelizing the forum fall squarely under that second heading.  Topics such as "Jesus is coming.  You're all going to burn." will be removed as much as "Allah wants your soul" and "Christians: stop talking to your imaginary friends."  The purpose of this forum is discussion and support, not evangelism.