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You're proving JR's point about bashing. You're proving my point that there is something going on with Protestants on a deep-down level that they cannot discuss religion without bashing Catholics.

Let's see, a you are drawing a conclusion from a sample of .... one poster. Kind of limited wouldn't you say?

....No, her post was PROVING my point. My conclusion is based on a couple years of observation of the religious threads. Her post is just one more example. Feel free to disagree, but this is how I see it and nothing you say is really going to convince me otherwise.

If the Catholic Church didn't exist, would you have anything to talk about?

You know aside from Mom, i haven't seen anyone talking about the Catholic Church. In point of fact, some of us have included the Catholics as a group being oppressed by this recent trend. It isn't that long a thread, look up the posts yourself. FYI, we have been generally refering to Mormons, not Catholics.

...I'm not referring to just this thread. This thread is about the religion forums in general, and this is what I am referring to. It's completely relevant to discuss behavior on other threads. If you and a few other kind souls feel that the Catholics are 'persecuted' on the religion threads, thanks for your honesty. But you and the few others that are admitting this are also not the ones on the threads everyday bashing us. What I'm saying is, you're not the problem. It's people like rnmomof7 and quite a few others who I will not name for etiquette's sake who constantly bash and don't see a problem with it. That's really who I'm responding to and about.

You and Illbay can't be so myopic that you don't see the contradiction within your position.

Many Mormons and Catholics run to the moderators to complain that their faiths are "getting bashed" during every rigorous religious discussion.

Protestants "get bashed" not for their religious beliefs, but because they dare to engage in the debate at all. The few times one of you (or one of us, for that matter) challenges something, we don't yell "time-out." We stand and discuss; supposedly the purpose of any Religious Forum.

IMO, not much has changed since third grade, when various ninnies in the schoolyard couldn't play fair and threw tantrums and ate mud and whined to the teacher that everyone was "mean" to them.

Free Republic's creation has been a mighty force for good and truth.

But if Free Republic means turning back the clock 500 years to a time before those who "protested" were named Protestants, it's a shame beyond telling.

You guys need to grow up and have more faith in your own beliefs. Too much defensive carping, and you look very insecure.