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I think the main ‘difference’ among ‘folks’ here, is that some seem to take joy in stirring up religious antagonism, instead of just leaving other people alone in their beliefs.

So it is proper and acceptable to contend for conservative ideology vs. liberal idelogy, esp. in the light of the consequences of belief, instead of just leaving other people alone in their beliefs, but theological debate is intolerable?

I’ve never understood why Christians, on a website like this, are always baiting other Christians. And I appreciate it when the moderators shut down threads that are obviously intended to stir up antagonism.

So in your belief censorship of those you disagree with is appreciated, while you provoke a response from them by asserting such.

However, Truth is exclusive by nature, and thus to assert any Truth claim is to challenge a competing one. And the "baiting" of Christians here is usually by a certain class of believers in a certain faith who promote an elitist one true church, which demeans all others, and thus provokes a response of reproof. And I think that if they were not then FR could be turn into an advertising organ for them more than it has (and another elitist and more aberrant group was shut down for more overtly doing so).

And yet conservative parties of various (non theocratic government) moral faiths can be basic good conservative citizens in America, and as FR is officially a pro-God site , and with its own religious forum, then conservatives of variant faiths are attracted here. But the RMs wisely recognize that debate is to be expected, and have reasonable rules for the religious forum , and which they judiciously apply. Thus pulling threads for "flaming" is rare.

However, there is a certain class of conservatives that would rather expunge the RF, and others that would censoring all challenges to their one true church. Which a private venue can do, but which is hardly consistent with being for American values. Which flowed out of basic Christian beliefs.