[mlizzy]

IMO that's exactly what some of these Catholics are asking for, i.e. for Free Republic to move all religious discussion out from under any sort of moderation, because the current Religion Moderator will not allow Catholics to use destructive personal language in posts made about certain Protestants. In other words, I think the Catholics want sanctioning, i.e. "space to destroy".

It would be interesting to see how well things would function with a [well-schooled] devout Roman Catholic sharing in the duties of moderating in the [current] Religion Forum, if they were interested in doing so. I can name three or four who would be respectful [and evidently so can boatbums as she mentioned it in previous commentary]. It's the lukewarm [or impatient] Catholic who is the troublemaker. And "space to destroy" goes both ways. You can search this thread for examples if you like.

[mlizzy]

Meant to ping you to this post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/3263766/posts?page=754#754

[Alex Murphy]

It would be interesting to see how well things would function with a [well-schooled] devout Roman Catholic sharing in the duties of moderating in the [current] Religion Forum....It's the lukewarm [or impatient] Catholic who is the troublemaker.

I have no objections to a "well schooled devout Roman Catholic" being appointed as a moderator, but I am curious as to how (you think) that would be different from how the RF is run today. I've read a number of different suggestions from Catholics over the years, everything from only allowing "Catholic Caucus" threads, enforcing a "Ecumenical threads only" atmosphere, to banning all of the troublemakers and burning the Religion Forum to the ground. Let's just say I've read some pretty colorful ideas over the last decade, and very very few of them were workable.

As a thought experiment, let's revisit the opus-inducing issue that was the original topic of this thread (see my excerpts here), and let's assume that this theoretical moderator tag-team was already in place. What changes to the existing RF rules do you think would be made? How do you think the events surrounding this opus would have gone done differently, from what actually went down?

[Gamecock]

**It would be interesting to see how well things would function with a [well-schooled] devout Roman Catholic sharing in the duties of moderating in the [current] Religion Forum,**

I have always felt there is more than 1 moderator. RFM-1 and RFM-2. One is slightly more engaging in some banter and the other is, shall we say, more clinical in carrying out their duties. Not saying either one is right or wrong, just different. Who is to say that a devout RC isn’t a mod? On this board it is hard to say who is and isn’t a mod. Right Alex? ;-)

So my question is, why should the members decide who the moderator is? Isn’t that, in our case anyway, turning the asylum over to the inmates? (And that is meant to cut both ways)

[Grateful2God]

***IMO that's exactly what some of these Catholics are asking for, i.e. for Free Republic to move all religious discussion out from under any sort of moderation, because the current Religion Moderator will not allow Catholics to use destructive personal language in posts made about certain Protestants. In other words, I think the Catholics want sanctioning, i.e. "space to destroy".***

Honestly, the issue with the above is that Catholics have an intrinsic disadvantage in forum in one respect: we are a denomination. That gives a larger target and more ammunition to posters who want to take a jab. In return, we as Catholics can't reply on a personal level, nor to a denomination that does not exist, or will not be disclosed.