Dear xzins,
I don't think this should be a protected thread. I don't think it's warranted at all.
Although it would be nice if the Rules of the Religion Forum required a minimum of decorum when discussing others' religious beliefs in open threads, I don't think it would be appropriate to designate this a caucus thread, even though that would be the only way to keep the discussion from getting ugly.
The fact is that the original pieces that start this thread contrast Catholic and Protestant culture, spirituality, belief, etc. By definition, this should be an open thread.
It's a pity that what that means is that any idiot poster can enter herein and spew with reasonable impunity venom and blasphemy at things Catholic.
Oh well.
sitetest
I respect your comments.
However, the opening comment by the poster of the thread, pyro, said that he wanted protestants to back off on their opinions and consider this a different kind of discussion....as if we were inside a Catholic catechism class.
That's fine with me. I'll do that. But that makes it a protected thread.
For me, I probably wouldn't think I was being intensely disagreeable when others would think that my disagreements were designed to be rude.