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In reality, Harley, there is great irony in Rev's words.

You see, unbeknownst to you and thePilgrim, Rev was part of an email group with many of the Calvinists. This email group was not hosted on FreeRepublic, but we all knew each other from FreeRepublic. Rev did not participate all that much, but when he did, he was welcomed and was considered a friend.

Now to the irony. Rev may have pinged the RM regarding thePilgrim's posting of private FRmail to the public forum.

But the irony is that Rev himself posted information to FreeRepublic from those private emails from that private email group. He posted out of context with the intent of making the Calvinists look bad.

So, it is only out of hypocricy (he never apologized nor asked for forgiveness for this breech of trust) that he pings the RM to the apparent rule violation of thePilgrim.

I can only see the rationale behind his motivations as an attempt to get thePilgrim banned.

It seems to be the M.O. of the "neeners" to attempt to silence the Calvinists.

When they simply cannot respond to the arguments presented or to the critiques of their own theology, they either demand any specific Calvinist to refrain from pinging them, or they attempt to bring in the moderator in the hopes that the moderator will make notes on what the "neeners" think are abuses of FR rules by the Calvinists.

In the end, I fully believe that you are correct in your feeling that there is an orchestrated attempt to get the Calvinists of of FreeRepublic.

Jean

Luke 6:22
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.