"If you can't stand an open discussion then please indicate on all your threads "Roman Catholics Only"."
Open discussion? Bring it on. Controversial issues? Whatcha got? But it gets tiresome to see the same people asking the same questions, not in a way that looks to be genuinely seeking an answer, but demonstrating over and over some background familiarity and then pretending that the concept involved is all new to the questioner. It gets more than a little annoying when venom is thrown at us, as tenn has done repeatedly on this thread, for example, while coming from a background that displays profound ignorance of even the basics of that which is railed against. Finally, it is a simple fact that the hijacking of Catholic threads here is not reciprocated by us with yours, but a goodly chunk of Catholic threads have their reason for existence totally turned around by people who really have NO vested interest in the matter. Remember this one, from just the past week: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1567919/posts ? I ask you, what would a non-Catholic care about postulated miracles from JP II's possible intercession leading to evidence for his canonization? Yet look at what that thread became! Before post 50, it was off and running toward developing into something *completely* off-point. This was accomplished with a Protestant hijacking, where the theme was successfully changed to a back-and-forth between us over points having *nothing* to do with the original post.
That's a quick example, as I have far less time to fool around here on FR today than I did yesterday. There are more than a few such examples each week, however.