They just say stuff like that because of the goal of some of them to be irritating. I think we can agree that if someone enters a discussion of differing religious points of view with the intention to "drive them nuts" there is little likelihood that Truth or the Gospel has anything to do with their intentions.
These are important matters. But there is rarely a calm dispassionate examination of an argument. There are derision, repetition, comments like "shuck and jive", things of that kind. And when one asks for an explanation of things like "shuck and jive" one gets either no response or more derision and, well, "shucking and jiving"!
It's as useless and as doomed to failure as trying to do brain surgery with a 4 lb hammer. And on either side it's a damnable substitute for witness to Christ.
And when we get to the part where arguments are met with laughter and derision and mocking terms, and the response to that abuse is met with astonished proclamations of innocence, we have entered the realm of the pathological: I am mocking you and what you say in love and peace, Your proportionate response to my loving gestures of mockery, contempt, and evasion of he issues is cruel.
Truth be told there's too much of that on either side. But evidently we MAY be mocking and contemptuous and so we MUST be mocking and contemptuous. God's law takes second place to the rules of FR.
Around here we have bears. If you don't want them too close "around here" it's good not to feed them.
Nonsense.
I've been a FReeper for going on ten years now, both as a Catholic and as a Protestant; I know what I see. The anti-Catholics attack everything we hold dear and trust in excepting the Bible because they have a measure of respect for it.
On the other hand, our responses are muted because we are loathe to attack the Bible, or their superstitious misuse of it.
While I realize you could be referring to ANY derision being too much, rhetorically painting a tit-for-tat scenario is "turning the other cheek" to those who will "turn and rend."