But they are like moths drawn to a flame.
The other thread types - prayer, devotional, caucus, ecumenical - provide "safe harbor" from the antagonism of a town square.
That said, I find it very ironic that there are names on this thread complaining about attacks on Catholic beliefs which just a few weeks ago so brutalized Pentecostal beliefs that the most notorious Pentecostals are now conspicuous by their absence.
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I'm glad we have those! Anyone serious is let into Caucus Threads so good dialogue can take place. Thanks for keeping order in the above mentioned threads.
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.