Members of religions which are as much culture as belief sometimes do take religious debate personally. If so, they would be better off by ignoring "open" Religion Forum threads altogether and instead posting to "ecumenical" "caucus" "prayer" or "devotional" threads.
"Open" RF debate requires thick skin. A poster must be able to make his points while standing his ground, suffering adverse remarks about his beliefs - or letting them roll of his back.
A good friend of ours was a Mormon and now a protestant. We have other very good friends that are Mormon. In discussing it with the ex-Mormon, we found she was still very much offended by debate about Mormonism. She said it is not just a religion, but an entire culture. And even though she doesn't believe it anymore, she still takes attacks against Mormonism as personal.
She said that she witnesses to Mormons by quietly demonstrating her faith, and describing HER dilemmas, solutions, etc. in a way that is VERY different from how Mormon's view things - hoping that they will see the difference on their own, rather than her pointing out to them where they are wrong.
Anyway - it was interesting to hear about it being a “culture”.