Yes, I have wondered how your making it personal doesn’t seem to register until you complain to the RM that someone else is making it personal. How DO you do that, Resty? LOL
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Personal attacks are not allowed anywhere on Free Republic. Personal attacks include name calling, threats, asking a poster if he’s off his meds or drunk, etc.
On the Religion Forum, reading minds or attributing motive or focusing the thread on another Freeper, personally is “making it personal.”
It is not making it personal to do these things to groups, authors, deities, religious authorities, etc.
For instance, if I said “Buddhists think ...” that would not be making it personal. But if I said “You think ...” that would be making it personal.
Accusing another Freeper of telling a lie is always “making it personal” because it attributes the motive, the intent to deceive. Words such as “false” “error” “wrong” do not att
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Well I also read on the RM Profile
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My job:
I am not the protector of your beliefs.
I am not the arbiter of truth, for that posters must turn to God or whoever they consider to be the final authority.
I am not the arbiter of logical proofs, for that the posters must turn to the mathematicians, logicians and philosophers.
I am not the arbiter of fact, for that the posters must turn to the scientists, physical evidence, testimonies and historians.
I am not the arbiter of the meaning of words, and I’m not sure there exists such a final authority so the burden rests with the posters to explain what they mean.
But when it comes to this Religion Forum, I lay out the guidelines and resolve disputes within those guidelines. But I do not “settle” matters of dogma, doctrine, tradition or meanings of words.
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Yet to me it seems some RM choose to ignore their own advice about not being arbtier!
We’ve received a number of complaints (including abuse reports) that posters are offended when other posters say that Mormons are not Christian. But the belief that only Trinitarians can be called Christian is both deeply held and official doctrine in a number of belief groups.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2578704/posts?page=2754#2754
To me it is more in the hands of the whims of men