[flaglady47]

“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.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This thread began with a news article. Did you read it?

[Cronos]

Actually, there is an option for this -- there is such a thing as an {Ecumenical Thread} where one can dispute, but civilly. And the condition is that antagonism is not allowed and in the event of whether you are unsure, you should say "this is what I believe and why I think what I believe is correct" -- disputes are to be expected in religious matters.

Yet, very few posters bothered to get on these -- one notable exception among anti-Catholic postes I will point out is RnMomof7, though I dispute quite strongly with her, she has been discussing on ecumenical threads, raising her in my esteem. The others decline to be involved in a non-antagonistic forum.