Some Freepers evidently believe the statement is true. And they will continue to believe that statement is true until you become "iconoclastic" and destroy that belief with reasoned "open" religious debate.
In an ecumenic format, the statement could not be made - or if made, it could not be rebutted, only removed.
And they will continue to derail other Catholic threads with it, no matter what the original topic is. That's trolling, demanding an off-topic debate. Then add "Mariolatry" and "magicsterium," and the thread, no matter what the religious topic, is effectively ruined for serious discussion of the original topic of the thread. Can you not see that? It happens nearly daily around here.
Back to lurking.
No one's stopping them from posting a thread on that topic (or any other), rther than acting like opportunistic viruses on other threads. I've stayed off the religion forum for months at a time because sometimes it seems like there are no discrete threads (anyway Catholic ones) -- just one long, repetitious continuous loop!