“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice”. Thank you for that reminder. It should be an automatic post whenever a thread gets this long because you just know that, if it concerns religion, it is bound to get acrimonious - to our shame.
Yep, it's always easy to stick a rafter in someone’s eye.
But it drives away real discussion and debate, things which allow a person to sharpen their views and defence of them.
As you say, a shame.