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I can see that I was mistaken to think that Free Republic was no longer an anti-Catholic website.
It was a mistake to donate to the last fundraiser on that basis. I won’t make that mistake again.

Dearest sitetest

No, you weren't mistaken and your donation remains truly and greatly appreciated.

I've not come back to the Religious Forum in a quite a long while because until last night, I hadn't seen any severely outlandish, totally freaky or truly nasty posts like the ones from that poster which I relied to.

As you can see, Jim is faithful to his word: he doesn't tolerate that crap and I think our Religion Moderator must be doing a good job too, because again, until last night, I hadn't noticed any severely ugly posts sail by on the latest comments page. (I do, however, complete ignore posts by a certain predictable few...lol. One is too wordy to ever make sense even in a mental ward for the insane and the others are just plain nutz).

I'm sure you know that Jim can't monitor every thread, but all you have to do is either ping him or send him a short note.

God bless and keep you.

... I hadn't seen any severely outlandish, totally freaky or truly nasty posts ...

And, then you post one!

One is too wordy to ever make sense even in a mental ward for the insane and the others are just plain nutz) -Onyx

It's too sad to even try to respect Roman Catholic cultists, when they repeat the same tired tripe!

We Christians have to constantly correct the cultists from Scripture, and they can only reply with manmade traditions and superstitions! Ot, they come back with attacking messengers but never respond to the message.

Romans 1: 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. ...

Thanks for posting this onyx, it reminded me once again why it’s still a good thing to donate to this site. I just made another donation.

It’s good, even though I’m Catholic, because I recognize that this “site” isn’t “anti-Catholic”, whereas some of the posters here are. I cannot in good conscience fault Jim for the behavior of some of the posters here because:

A. He (Jim) made it explicit a few months ago that threads started with the express purpose of bashing Catholicism won’t be allowed. This doesn’t mean (and can’t mean, see why below) that no anti-Catholic sentiment is allowed. It just put a stop to the most egregious behavior that quite frankly even I was starting to question my donations in the past. Starting to wonder if the “good” here outweighed the “bad”. No more though. Again for that I humbly thank you Mr Robinson.

B. He (Jim) JUST made it quite clear on THIS thread (as he has in the past) that he believes Catholics are Christians. How could I possibly believe this entire site is “anti-Catholic” when its owner and operator is clearly not? Maybe I have too low a definition of what constitutes an “anti-Catholic” but to me that’s only someone who doesn’t believe Catholics are Christian and/or constantly makes it a habit if not a mission to denigrate the Church and her teachings. Like daily. Neither of these definitions fit Jim Robinson, at all so there’s no way (in my mind at least) that the site he runs can be “anti-Catholic”. But then again maybe my definition is too loose. I don’t think it is though.

More on point A though, specifically, whether or not the anti-Catholic (minority) should be allowed to post at all, let alone whole threads dedicated to that purpose. Quite frankly I wouldn’t want Jim or any moderator to decide what constitutes an “anti Catholic” post (reply) because at the end of the day that’s a judgement call. Subjective by its very nature (with a few extreme examples which have been dealt with and continue to be dealt with appropriately IMO). In other words I’d rather the management default to FReedom, rather than regulation, or else, to put it bluntly, I don’t think I could reasonably call myself a “conservative” at all.

So thanks again onyx for the reminder. And as far as the FReepathon goes lets “Git ER done”!