[narses]

In the Smoky Backroom forum, on a thread titled Thanks for the memories, but it's time for Christians to unite not fight, goodwithagun wrote:

You perfectly expressed what I feel as well. I’m pretty close to signing off for good. This place has become like facebook, which I signed off from for the same reasons.

Ditto. Why waste the time God gave us where we are not respected or wanted? The few, the nasty, the heretical apostates have spewed their venom here. There are many better places for both political activism and religious conversation.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Good to see you narses. Unfortunately you are correct. The heretics have so soiled and poisoned the religion forum that it is beyond redemption, and has driven off most of the intelligent committed Christians. A damn shame, but the foregone conclusion given its biased “moderation” practices.

The whole “Religion Forum” idea was a bad idea from day one, but few were willing to speak up at the time. Conservatism by its nature is Christian; banishing religious discussions to a religion forum ghetto was always doomed to degenerate into what we see now.

[stonehouse01]

I have missed you! I am totally done with the hateful anti Catholicism here as well and baffled by the religion moderators toleration of it.

I also have decided to lurk for a while to see if it gets any better.

As far as I can determine, 95% or more of the Catholics here do not become nasty or personal but try to defend their Faith intelligently using scripture, reason and the Church Fathers, as well as the CCC, the saints’ teachings, etc. etc. We are mocked for our efforts.

At an rate, please let us know, privately if that is better, if you have found a better place for political activism and religious conversation. An honest intellectual disagreement is OK, however that is not what has been happening here and we all know who the meanest are.

I do not think any one of my posts contains a single ad hominem attack, although I do defend the Faith. If so, it was an accident out of frustration. It is pointless here.

I have prayed about this in front of the Blessed Sacrament and have determined that for my own health I need to detach from the anti Catholic toxicity. I do not want to leave the forum, but will try to avoid the anti catholic posters.

[onyx]

GOOD to see you, dearest narses! I avoid the Religious Form like the plaque, but unfortunately see some of the vile posts sail by on the latest comments page and all too often see the posted articles particularly during our FReepathons, and almost always posted by the same posters.

IMHO, these 'articles' are meant to inflame, and are not "teaching instruments," as some absurdly claim. Heck, many of the 'aricles' date back to 2010! LOL.

I think the solution is obvious and ours: Completely ignore them. Let the 24/7 "flamers" whose entire purpose on FR is Catholic bashing have their threads to themselves. Without any of us to engage, their threads will become quite boring, with only themselves to gleefully engage and high five one another, all the while "quoting scripture."

Keep within our own caucus. I don't give a rip what they think, do you?





I still like to think that whether we're blessed Roman Catholics or Protestants, that we're all Christians, but of late, I have come to believe that the 24/7 users of such bandwidth quoting scripture and making outrageous claims, might also be snakehandlers as well...lol.

God bless and keep you all.

[Salvation]

Please don’t leave. You have a lot of Catholic knowledge.

[Elsie]

The few, the nasty, the heretical apostates have spewed their venom here.

But we could always count on you to post; multiple times per thread; images that expressed a deep wisdom outlining the problem.