Another reason we know this thread was designed primarily to attack and bait conservative Christians is that the thread was posted not in the religion forum, where the most indepth and vigorous discusions of religious articles take place, but in News/Activism, even though it's not news (the article is from 1999) and there's no action for current Freepers.
If this were an isolated incident, one should judge it as a mistake, but as it's part of pattern of such old articles being posted in the News/Activism thread, we must give credit to the poster for deliberate rather than accidental placement.
So the question remains: why is it OK for CP to mock, insult, and abuse conservative Christians here on Free Republic? Why are posts pointing out his own sordid background pulled while his abuse of a large percentage of all FReepers is permitted?
Any DU troll newbie would be banned for his kind of continuous abusive behavior.
The posting was to news/activism because these folks have been flexing muscles in politics.
Unless you don't think that is important.