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I'm often tempted to just delete the entire Religion forum. If the particpants here cannot learn to be civil to each other, then why bother. It ain't worth the grief.

Are you equally put off by the incivility of the News forum and the General chat forum? Or is it only Religious incivility that you don't like?

And then, there are the abuse button abusers.... sheesh, this stuff can drive a person nuts.

I feel for ya on that one JimRob. One of my sons is like that. I have to tell him, if there's no blood or broken bones then I don't want to hear it. ;^)

FR was established as a politics forum, not a religious debate forum.

If FR had a monopoly on discussion websites, you might have a legitimate complaint, but the fact is there are uncounted forums available to you where it is not only permitted, but EXPECTED, that you can go and bash those religions that offend you.

I would invite you to go to Usenet, to alt.religion.mormon, if you want to engage in debate with "Mormons" who themselves love to debate. You can post all your slander, you can make all your brilliant (though decidedly unoriginal) statements of argument, etc.

And you can do that without incurring the wrath of the moderators of Free Republic.

To me, it is "win-win," and I don't understand why you hesitate to avail yourself of it.