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I suppose it would depend on the definition.

Personally, the RC’s win that one hands down by a wide margin.

The RC tones get quickly fiercely harshly personally assaultive, personally derisive, arrogant in the worst sense of the term etc.

I use hyperbole a lot to highlight stuff—certainly I do.

I particularly like to highlight double standard assaultiveness and prissy RELIGIOUS ARROGANCE. That’s likely not going to change. When it’s missing, I have nothing on that score to highlight in my usual style.

Yes, some of my cohorts see it as their Christian duty to cry foul at every opportunity against every perceived RC infraction of Biblical truth etc. I understand their perspective and don’t particularly fault them for that.

We have been treated similarly by a contingent of RC’s from the beginning of FR. Somehow, y’all always seem to ignore that fact.

Personally, I try to pick my battles and reserve my time, energy and colorful fonts for a very limited criteria of outrageousness. And, I try to be quite even tempered/toned and civil unless and until the other side crosses that line outrageously.

Otherwise, my colorful fonts and exclamations are about what I see as outrageously UNBIBLICAL and eternally destructive-to-souls theological differences in belief and practice.

A huge chunk of RC’s ARE DETERMINED TO TAKE *THAT* PERSONALLY and to respond in the most mean-spirited, vengeful ways one can get away with and beyond. Wellllll Whoop-T-Doooo! How childish.

Would I make as much noise about some RC stuff as some of my Proddy cohorts? Probably not. Yet I understand their doing so. They persistently do so in MUCH MORE CIVIL terms than the RC’s do and certainly than the RC’s reply with.

And there’s no comparison in terms of the amount of whining and running to authorities on the part of the RC’s compared to Proddys. That’s obvious.

On the whole, I think it was unfortunate that this thread did not remove the Proddy thing in that paragraph and deal with the topic as a caucus.

Given what the RC’s dished out, they deserved what they got in response.

I don’t know that FAIR is fairly assessed. RC’s have assaulted Proddys routinely on Proddy threads all my years here. So what. That’s what the net is about. It is a fierce exchange of ideas and feelings BY DESIGN and preference.

RC’s can grow up, accept it, roll with the punches, get a thicker skin or stay on the caucus threads only.

The RM has repeatedly made that clear—though he rarely enforces the thin-skin criteria.

However, RC’s will NOT do so. They seem to be compulsively driven like moths to a flame.

WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL FINE—then if they can’t stand the heat—they should jolly well stay out of the kitchen!