The sad truth is that many of those who go about attacking Catholic and other freepers are closet leftists. Check out the posts by a poster called HankKerchief. He was later exposed as an anti-Christian leftist who had been on FR for years.
We have other leftists here who only post threads like this one or similar ones (check out the posts attacking Pentecostals or Methodists or Adventists) -- they just want to:
My only reason for posting on this particular thread in the first place was to question why increasingly hateful, venomous, contentious and embarrassing 'religious wars' threads are on FR at all any more. If anyone thinks they aren't divisive among freepers and getting more so, they should rethink.
I post frequently on the Lutheran threads where pertinent religious NEWS is analyzed and dissected....and the the discussions revolve around religious NEWS such as the liberal incursions into the various Lutheran synods. The threads NEVER descend into theological, internecine battles between the participants. I've NEVER seen turf wars, nastiness or ugliness on these threads even though there are a number of varieties of Lutheranism.
Since time and energy are limited, I prefer to expend these gifts in fighting the temporal enemies of the Republic on the NEWS pages of FR, not in fighting my fellow believers on the eye-glazingly-contentious religion threads.
However, it's not lost on me that the FR religious category seems to attract a core number of the good, the bad and the obsessive, so it's obviously popular in spite of (or maybe because of) the ugly infighting and attacks on each others' faiths.....and, because I'm a cupcake, I can only say to the perpetual combatants "go with God", to each his own, and enjoy whatever floats your ark.
Leni