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
Read the article that begins this thread. That is what some people are trying to do on this thread.
Other people litter the thread with all sorts of nutty deflections and comical/bogus/vile tangents which do nothing to further the debate.
Which is exactly their intent.
“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.”
Bravo! Excellent analysis throughout and right on point. Too many of the so-called religious threads are nothing more than mud-slinging events of my religion is better than yours. Or just plain hateful. Shows the immaturity of the posters rather than anything about the merits of the various religions. Slings and arrows, that is what so many of the “debates” degenerate into. Too bad, because the topic of religion is fascinating, the religious wars on these threads is not.