It certainly is depressing that the Religion Moderator seems to encourage this kind of stuff. It undermines the basic purpose of FR, which is to get people of various persuasions to work together against the evil forces that are working to destroy our country. And there’s certainly nothing Christian about such an attitude.

I thought that comments was one of the worst I've ever read on FR and I just checked and it's still there. Like I said, I avoid the Religion Forum, but I think the Religion Moderator does a great job, (in a totally thankless and extremely difficult job) but the definition of "don't make it personal" puzzles me, because vicious slams against one's religion is certainly personal, in that there's no other way of followers taking it, other than personal!

Perhaps all should be caucus, and thus eliminating the arguments? I personally think that the majority of so-called "articles" posted by a certain few, are meant to inflame, so my advice is for all Catholics to completely ignore those threads and let those few have their glee and handle their snakes or prance around in their drum circles.

The posts are NOT 'teaching' instruments. That's for certain.

God bless and keep you, dearest Cicero.

It certainly is depressing that the Religion Moderator seems to encourage this kind of stuff.

Translation:

IF I wuz the RM; these damned Prots would be...

GONE!!!

It certainly is depressing that the Religion Moderator seems to encourage this kind of stuff. It undermines the basic purpose of FR, which is to get people of various persuasions to work together against the evil forces that are working to destroy our country. And there’s certainly nothing Christian about such an attitude.

Yes, I believe the Religion Moderator encourages battles as well, and it IS discouraging.

I think the comment onyx mentioned from CynicalBear, regarding more Catholics being in hell than Muslims, should be removed, just like I thought a photograph of a prominent Catholic, marked up to look like Satan, fell into that same category as well. Because it wasn't removed, I pulled off the site for several months, and when I returned, I decided to pass on further donations and just not post any more threads to balance things out.

I didn't realize so many others were similarly discouraged, and will back off again soon myself even though I do enjoy the commentary of most of the Catholics here, and a couple-few of the non-Catholics as well.