Yes. That's one of costs of doing business on Free Republic. You have suffer people that just like to argue, sound clever and view this as a chat site rather than serious discussion of issues.
Some people bring their baggage that all religions are equally bad etc and unable to discern differences that matter. Not much different from liberals that collect trivial facts to support their case, get lost in trees and minutae and simply unable to see the forest.
Agreed. As for "roughshod lump things together", it's such great phraseology. I would have skipped commenting except for that. I call it blenderism. The idea that if you take your dinner and put it all in a blender, it tastes better than if you eat it normally. IOW powers of discrimination and discernment are a negative.
Some people bring their baggage that all religions are equally bad etc and unable to discern differences that matter........
That whole multi culti thing. Female genital mutilation is a valid cultural expression.