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NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.

Thank you for posting that. Actually, the restriction seems to be even more broad, as it includes vulgarity and religious bigotry.

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religious bigotry (i.e. members of a dominant group denigrating religions other than their own)

Is there religious bigotry on this thread ?

This definition of profanity is also very broad; it would include not only the phrase you called out on this thread, but also comments that ignorant or hateful towards the rules of Catholicism.

Profanity[edit] Profanity (vt) To treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt. (adj) Not concerned with religion or religious purpose: secular, not holy because unconsecrated, impulse, or defiled, unsanctified.

For a word or phrase to be profane it must not be religious or function outside the duties of religious belief. To be profane means for the word or phrase to be ignorant or hateful towards the rules of religions. Examples of profanity are words or a phrase not meant to belittle Gods, their religions, but situated on the ignorance and indifference to such points.[8]

religious bigotry (i.e. members of a dominant group denigrating religions other than their own)

Is there religious bigotry on this thread ?

"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."

--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)

This definition of profanity is also very broad; it would include not only the phrase you called out on this thread, but also comments that ignorant or hateful towards the rules of ~~Catholicism~~ Protestatism.