Well I am going to reiterate what the others have said here.
The religion rule 'forbids' "Comments that overly push any relious belief, or that could be offensive to others"
This does not prevent all posting about religion, and certainly doesn't get as petty the God Bless thing. Light discussion regarding religion and SI etc is fine - what is bad, for both RYL and the thread starter are posts trying to push their relgion on others, as that always ends up in a lot of hostility.
The language thing is there to revent people from using RYL in other languages, not to prevent english people from using the odd phrase. We wouldn't want messages being passed between two members in another language that english because it leaves people out, and is also not Moderatable. One sentence is fine - extend blocks, especially if they are used to deliberately mask something that would otherwise break the rules is what we are looking out for with this one.
May I just stress how hard it is to cross the line with most of these rules. Never will a Mod punish a member for a one off accidental slip up. What we care about are members who go out of there way to deliberately say or do things that will hurt others. Thus members who care about those around them and who stay within reasonable limits of kindness and behaviour will never need to worry about any of these.
Harley
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