This post isn't Religion/Theology per se, but there's been a fair amount of posting in R/T lately with large blocks of text that are really quotations of other people's text, but the quotations aren't clearly marked as such, except for maybe a link following the quoted words to the actual author's original full text.

There's an easy way to quote large blocks of text, something that works a lot better than pairs of quotation marks, or no markings at all:

div class=excerptText you want to quote/div

(If the left and right brackets in the text above look kind of funny, it's because I'm using pictures of those characters rather than the actual characters -- brackets get parsed as HTML markup by DU's posting software, making it difficult to post about posting.)

Using this div/excerpt markup...