Discuss the issues all you want, but do NOT make it personal. Attributing motives, reading the other poster's mind are instances of "making it personal."
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Is it possible to put this thread back in News/Activism where it started?
But I thought it strange this was in Religion -- we usually keep these out of the Religion forum since the rules here allow/require theological approaches that constrain us who wish to keep things on a more pure scientific level.
And as you know, a small subset of us have evolved to the point where we CAN read others' minds (but we generally keep it a secret and certainly don't flaunt it) -- ;)