Josiah Concept Ministries

I saw three comments, one on this site, one on another site, and one via e-mail that worried me.  The first comment was from Kelly of the Rational Response Squad:

In all seriousness, as I pointed out in the last comment I sent (which wasn’t posted…), you are wise to disassociate yourself from the aforementioned stalker. Maybe you should also remind him that Jesus said that you should pray for those who “persecute” you. (Not that we are doing that to him personally, but he has clearly taken it to that level on his end.) [emphasis added]

The second was from Brian Sapient, also of the RRS:

Kudos to you Cory. I look forward to a day when we can have you on the show. Preferably at some point after you start approving our blog comments on your blog. You can have a free pass on that one tonight considering the circumstances. (source, emphasis added)

I’ve never deleted a comment from Sapient or from Kelly.  I may have ignored these if it weren’t for an e-mail from the commenter on my Catholic Mass article.  He complained that I deleted his comment, too.  Trick is, I didn’t delete it; in fact, I had planed to respond to it as soon as I got more time.

Turns out the WP theme I was using ignores comments on pages.  That was why Sean Hutton’s comment disappeared for a little while.  Thank you for pointing that out to me, Sean!  I have changed to a new theme a little bit earlier than I had planned on for that reason.

As for Sapient and Kelly’s aforementioned comments, I have no explanation. They were not deleted by me.  I never saw any comments from either one other than the two that appear in response to my Frank Walton articles.

So I have crafted a Comments Policy page.  It is already on that page, but let me repeat it now:

I do not delete comments that represent dissenting opinions.  If they did not make it to the blog, then I apologize sincerely. It is likely a server mistake.  I only moderate comments that have more than one link, so if your comment (with one link or less) doesn’t appear immediately, e-mail the comment to me and I will post it personally.

This blog is an open forum and I encourage dissenting opinions.