Yes, but I also think Catholics have enough places to go discuss their theology without posting caucus threads on FreeRepublic.
But the site decided that Caucus threads were a good thing, a way to allow sub-groups of freepers to develop relationships based around something other than their conservative political views.
And people who have religious beliefs I disagree with use those caucus threads, and I don’t have a problem with that, even though I don’t participate myself.
And if the site decides to ban LDS caucus threads, I’m sure LDS folks can find a place to interact, just as I think all the caucus threads could be banned and people would find other places to interact. From what I’ve seen, the LDS threads don’t tend to have a lot of discussion anyway.
I think the caucus threads could have been banned without the dramas with this thread; I also think that perversely this thread has given a lot more coverage to the supposedly blasphemous title and subject of the thread than it ever would have received as just another of those silly caucus threads.
As to: ““holier than thou, my religion is the only TRUE religion” — Don’t we all feel that way about our religious beliefs? I certainly don’t think Catholics have the right religious view, if I did I would be a Catholic. I don’t think Baptists are right, or I’d be a Baptist. I certainly don’t think Mormons are right. I’m pretty sure you feel as absolutely confident of the wrongness of the Mormon view as they feel about yours.
That’s why religious discussions can be so divisive — it’s not a field where you tend to have compromise.
But you see Charles, I was still a Mormon when I joined FreeRepublic. For several years I posted as a Mormon, though an unbelieving one. One day, one particularly nasty LDS lady told me that I wasn’t allowed to call myself a Mormon since I didn’t regularly attend Church services, and didn’t believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet (she has since been banned from this site).
From that day forward, I was refused the right to post on Mormon caucus threads, simply because I didn’t toe the mark - wasn’t up to snuff when it came to Mormonism. Almost all of the Mormons on this site refused to allow me a say on caucus threads about my Mormonism or my experiences as a Mormon even though I was been born and raised a sixth generation Mormon in Utah and still retained my membership on their rolls.
Now, who gets to decide who can post on a caucus thread? Is it the Religion Mod? Admin Mod? Jim Rob? The poster of the thread?
Mormonism is a devious cult of Christianity. They use control tactics and don’t allow dissension or questions. They bring their accusations of bigotry and hatred to unrelated sites like this and try to control discussions about their theology so only the “good” parts are shown. Is that a Christian way to act? I say it isn’t.