Clearly, your "just curious" is, IMHO, not a very sincere reflection of your intent.
I make no bones about it ... I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... what csomemight call a "card carrying" member. I was raised a Southern Baptist and joined the Church in my teens.
I hold no ire against you or your beliefs, or those of your comrades and compatriots. In fact I revere and respect your faith in and believe in the Savior, Jesus Christ. it is something we hold in commmon.
I will not argue, contend or bash over religion. Not because I am incapable, I am very well acquainted with the scriptures, both the Old and New Testament and those scriptures we in my faith also hold dear along with them. I suppose I could use them to beat people over the head with, and then get beat right back over the head the other way. I choose not to participate in that. My faith is a matter of just that ... faith. Experiences of the heart I have had between myself and my Maker.
The Spirit of God does not reside, in my own estimation, in such contention, so, as I said, I will have nothing to do with it.
I was called to this thread not understanding the context. Now I have it.
I am sorry for any mistreatment you perceive at the hands of any members of my own faith ... or vice vesra. I do not believe you can truthfully say that I have ever been the source of anything like that. I have shared my own sincere and honest testimony of Christ with you and others on occassion ... and then left those threads when it was clear they were devolving into a cyber version of shouting matches or warm contention over doctrine. Like I said, I choose to have nothing to do with that, clal it what you like.
Anyhow ... albeit I am not a board member of FR ... or a "moderator" ... I have been around a few years. Jim does an extraordinary job of keeping this place stable and afloat ... and I for one, thank God that he does. This place is a marvelous gift and source for involvement in our fight for liberty and our Constitution ... irrespective of whatever minor differences I have had in times past with FR administration. You proabbly haven't been around long enough to know of it ... and it is in the past, water under the bridge anyway.
I would advise anyone to work with Jim, follow his rules, respect his living room and do the best you can to keep the spirit of liberty, morality, virtue and conviction alive in our nation.
Those are things we can all work towards together.
I've said far more than I intended so I'll just stop now and go back to what I was doing before being "called" over here.