This place is turning into a religious site with little room for anything else. It's wearing very thin.
In the handful of exchanges I've had on this thread I've seen accusations of various unnamed Freepers being the antichrist, and an assertion that it takes several hundred years to revise scientific theory in light of new evidence. If this has come to be representative of the "Premier Conservative Poltical Website" on the internet, we're in trouble.
Moderated public forums like this one may favor conservatives over libertarians inherently. The latter tend not to conform as easily and to self-destruct more readily. I suspect conservatives are more religious / theistic than libertarians so the site population skews that way. I well could be wrong, of course--it would be an interesting sociological study. But sociologists are generally liberals and soft sciententists, so they likely would politicize the results. So never mind.
blam, I enjoy your threads. Please continue, and add me to your ping list.
Blam, I don't think it's that bad. I mean, I post actual news topics which I don't think should be anything but interesting, and find they attract a bunch of chauvanists, that just makes me post another one later. [Nice try, chauvanists] That's outside the GGG area of course.
I left a note on my profile regarding the latest template complaint -- a complaint that is really directed at FR and JimRob -- and have only had to deal with that complaint once since then. When I did, I got no response. And since I posted my angry diatribe, the one about a plague on both houses, I've barely noticed any trouble with the "what's this B.C.E.? What is C.E.?" spam.
Of course, I'm just one hell of an even-tempered guy who rarely loses it (he lied) and also my focus isn't what it used to be (and I have eyeball insurance, it's just a matter of procrastination and vanity). Plus I'm kinda lazy, and maybe not too bright. :')
Anyway, I don't regard every religious-oriented post as some kind of criticism of my own views (which are *not* religious, although they are spiritual, and would be widely regarded as fringe, kooky, nutbar, etc), and short of my becoming a mod (I think my cussin' incident eliminated that possibility), I don't think it's worth my time worrying about it.
and to all (from my links page, probably time to whittle it down some):
Civ: Why I Don't Participate in Cr/Evo Bloodbaths
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627465/posts?page=51#51
GGG: Origins: Find all arguments on all sides specious, but this made me laugh really hard
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1579177/posts?page=82#82
Faith and Philosophy: Roman Catholic Irony by Arthur McGowan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390602/posts?page=5#5
Help: Regarding "anti-Catholicism" on FreeRepublic (thanks Admin Moderator)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311728/posts?page=24#24
irrelevant to the discussion:
FReepers: odds (cool gizmo on the profile page, check it out)
http://www.freerepublic.com/~odds/