>>We have atheist Freepers, theists, anti-theists, diests, agnostics, wiccans and for all I know Freepers who worship rubber ducks.
There is no “official” religion on Free Republic. <<
Exactly. So why would it be correct for a Wiccan to define what a Presbyterian does when the Presbyterian states the truth for a Presbyterian?
Why is it okay for the French to define American law?
Often the debate is so intense there is more heat than light. But they deal with it because what each person sees may not be exactly the same thing.
That is what "open" religious debate is all "about."
Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Jews, Atheists, Agnostics, Scientologists, Orthodox and so on are expected to stand up to the same kind of challenges on "open" threads.
If they cannot, they do not belong in the town square, in the "open" debate. They must withdraw to the "ecumenic" "caucus" "devotional" or "prayer" threads.
The Mormons claim to be Christian but an in-depth study of the faith will eventually turn up that it has nothing much in common with mainstream Christian faiths, not the least of which it rejects the OT and the NT in that "they must be interpreted correctly" and are not the scriptures most used by them, but instead they refer to the BOM. Also they believe that Joseph Smith needs a password from everybody after death so that he can stamp their way into heaven.
If a Pesbyterian church really did claim to worship Christ, yet had statues of Calvin, more than lifesize, inside, outside, in every home, and he was offered up prayers, and they claimed that he stands between man and Christ, what would you think?