I read a lot of them, but it would be a full time job to read them all.
Also, a lot of the political threads are redundant or are angry vanity rantings.
I first heard about Free Republic when Opinion Journal (the Wall Street Journal's website) reported on the disintegration of the Space Shuttle and the way that it was tracked here on FR. The political threads are what kept me here. That, and the fact that any important news immediately gets posted here, with intelligent commentary. Since getting addicted to FR I rarely open a newspaper.
Interesting... I too found FR as a lurker in regards trying to find out about conservative web-sites..Your right FR gets all the first headline news...
First thing in the morning have coffee and click on FR for the news....
I do alot of posting mainly on religious topics as you have noticed and many on the explosion of the Homosexual Agenda.
I posted an article today about a Pastor in Sweeden who has been Jailed about quoting Homosexuality as a Sin from the Bible. Biblical Passages now can be considered a Hate Crime? in Sweeden what's next?