I really hope that the RF can move beyond the vitriol that pretty much ruined it for me long ago. I hope that mutual respect would be the expected standard.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3314962/replies?c=357
Here’s the relevant post and “excoriating” reply. It’s what most people would call a civil, as well as obvious, response to MM’s post, very much what I was planning to remark upon its restatement, before I got curious about the previous use.