I’ve never attacked Pentecostal beliefs or the Pentecostal Church or it’s leaders, ever. Unless if Pentecostal beliefs now include wild science-fiction conspiracy theories and crazed, illiterate “prophets” claiming to be God.
The “standard” of discourse is amusing, somehow the word for a baby chicken must be deleted as not to offend, put the letters “B” and “S” together and that is highly offensive but the most vile, vicious, and hate-filled THINLY VEILED personal attacks are allowed as long they aren’t directed at “you” but the Catholic Church, or “rabid cults” or whatever word games that somehow technically don’t “make it personal”. It’s laughable.
As for :”thin-skinned”. I rarely hit the abuse button, but the ones who have mastered the “rules” of insulting others fingers bleed from hitting abuse on others. They will hit abuse if you copy and paste their own words back to them! They call others stupid, uninformed, say they’re going to hell and other forms of nastiness and disrespect that must have a nastiness thesaurus to find the numerous insults they post.
The “rules” have been abused so bad it’s laughable. The attacks ARE personal in nature, but somehow these perverse rules of the religion forum turn it into an embarrassment.
The "open" threads exist so that RF posters can declare, challenge or even ridicule beliefs.
Whenever one belief spawns from another, both CONDEMN each other in the harshest terms they can muster: anathema, cult, apostate, heretic, Satanic, etc. Those attitudes often become part of the official or holy documents/doctrines.
The "open" threads are a town square and allow posters to air these grievances. It often is contentious. That is why thin skinned posters are the trouble-makers on open Religion Forum threads.
Frequently the believers who complain the loudest about the "antis" actually embrace doctrines which hold the antis' beliefs in official contempt. It is rare to find "clean hands" in open theological debate.
Also, most of the RF posters understand the difference between personal contempt/antagonism - and contempt/antagonism directed a religious belief, deity, religious authority or writer.
If you don't get the difference, you should stay away from the "open" Religion Forum threads altogether.
I can and do intervene to keep posters from "making it personal" - there is nothing I can do to keep posters from taking it personally.