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Why are you leaving FR? Because threads pertaining to the scandal are moved to the Religion forum? The catholics who inhabit FR can be pinged to the post, and they are the ones who, like you, love and are genuinely concerned about the Church during this crisis. I think there is less catholic bashing when it's done this way.

Honestly, you cannot have a serious discussion regarding the crisis in the church when fundies invade a thread and begin to bash all things catholic. You've been here long enough to realize that you can neither reason with them or regain control and get a thread back on topic once that "the Catholic Church is an evil, satanic cult" crap starts.

I don't think it's worth leaving FR over.

Honestly, you cannot have a serious discussion regarding the crisis in the church when fundies invade a thread and begin to bash all things catholic.

Jim Rob knows full well that it is the Religion Forum ghetto where the fundies hang out, circling for fresh meat like so many wolves in sheeps clothing.

The place the "other side" needs to be heard is among the general readership.

The ONLY thing that is allowed to remain any more on the News Forum are the most secular critical reports, that present all things Catholic in a negative light.

That is the only thing these so-called conservatives here, who do not frequest the Religion Forumghetto, are permitted to see.

Thus we all are simply wasting our time preaching to the choir here in the Religion Forumghetto.

The way this patronizing censorship is going, there is no equal time to defend the Church. And thus a very real, even if unintentional, anti-Catholic bias is being cemented right into the very structure of this new FR Format.

And that is why Catholic FReepers are leaving.

I owe a bit of an explanation. I am not leaving just because of the threads -- you can think of that more as the straw that broke the camel's back -- but that is even overstated. I have received really awful freepermail from non-Catholics as well as some Catholics, and it is not good for me. I'm undergoing chemo just now, and am scheduled for surgery to remove a tumor that's around my lower spine. I thought I was doing something good for the Church and my fellow FReepers but apparently a large number of folks including Jim disagree. So I'm going for now. Please say a prayer for me. God bless.