It appears you are questioning whether the Religion Moderator had cause to delete posts, however asking it of people who may not, and now can not, see the words of those posts.
In my occasional wanderings into Religion forums, I have NEVER been booted simply because I was not a member of the correct religion when posting in a Caucus thread. While the rules are clear that the caucus threads are for people who adhere to that faith, the PURPOSE of the rules are to allow people within a faith to discuss among themselves differences of interpretation of something in their faith, without having to deal with arguments about their faith vs other faiths.
Most caucus threads seem to invite people outside the faith who merely want to learn about the faith, just as a church might; while they reject the idea of people coming into their caucus threads to argue with them about their religion, something I’m sure they get enough of in the real world, and which they’d rather not have to put up with every single place they turn.
If the religion moderator deleted posts, I have no trouble believing it was because those posts made people feel unwelcome in their caucus thread.
The Caucus rules for religion threads are NOT rules that are to be adhered to “by the letter”. The Caucus rules themselves make this clear, noting that attempts to circumvent the spirit of the rules by applying legalistic interpretations of the literal words of the rules will not be tolerated.
That would most certainly include anybody claiming the right to post in a caucus thread because they were once members of the faith, and therefore while they have “seen the light”, by the tenets of that faith are “always” of that faith. It appeared your discussion above was suggesting that such an argument would have merit for participating in a caucus, and I reject that notion.
There have been times I thought a caucus was being overly protective by posting real news stories as caucus items. But if I cared, I’d just post the same news story as a regular thread, so the rest of us could say what we wanted about it. It’s not like people are limited to posting an article only one time here. :-)
But you'd be wrong. Read the thread.