Some threads start out as purely exposing a belief aspect of the ISM, but slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) these threads turn into ridicule of the adherents.
When Mitt Romney was seeking the nomination of the republicant party, the switch of focus often happened immediately, aimed at ridiculing Romney more than the ISM he adhers to. Doesn't that strike you as suspiciously 'covert politicization'?
If one persists in IGNORING the facts tossed up from the coffers of Mormonism on an almost daily basis on FR; and if hit and run posters REFUSE to engage them; then yes; I WILL 'ridicule' them and 'degrade' them and mock them.
THEY are the ones clinging to a PROVEN heresy and and PROVEN anti-Christian religion and all the while claiming a superiority that is repugnant to us 'gentiles'.
(I am of an 'opinion' that because I did NOT cave in to the massive pressure generated on FR to support ROMNEY {our ONLY hope!!!} during the last election cycle, some folks still have not gotten over it.)