Reply To: So Long and Thanks for all the Fish

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@drbob those guidelines were NOT written specifically against you! I always felt like you had become a part of our community and we accept you for who you are and what you believe. I don’t know about the circumstances of what happened exactly but I can tell you this, you are not the first or the last to be called upon by the moderators. They have a very tough job and they have to make decisions.

To take a stance that you have been singled out is unfair, and it is playing the victim role. Just because you are one of the only theists on the site does not mean we are trying to get rid of you or that you are not welcome. Instead of leaving this community I would recommend that you reach out to the moderators for clarification of what their point of view was.

It really hurts me that after all of this time you feel this way. I would have thought as a professor and as someone that I considered to be a friend you think that just up and leaving like this will have no impact on this community. You think that none of us care about you? You think that by leaving with this sort of bitterness will not hurt us too? Do you think that after all this time we don’t enjoy your presence? You think that you had nothing to offer?

I’m hurt by what you are doing. And I think you know that. You hurt me in more ways than one by all of this nonsense. I don’t even have the words to say goodbye to you. I think what you are doing is selfish. If we mean so little to you then I guess I’ve been fooled. If you really consider yourself a guest then I suppose you have to do what you choose. But you don’t leave without leaving scars.