That is ridicule, from the Catholic perspective it's ridicule of Jesus. But not from the non-Catholic side.
A guideline against ridicule would be difficult to enforce and in some cases I can see it being abused.
I say it comes down to moderator judgement because it's more the totality of behaviour than stepping over a guideline.
As I said previously: Fanning the flames, intentional provocation, finding the most offensive ways to communicate a point.. over and over, without much attempt at discussion, is what I would flag as inflammatory. It may or may not include ridicule.
And, these are open threads, not protected for thin-skins. I think passionate belief is fine, however we can disagree without being disagreeable. But that's a difficult criteria to enforce.
If I were king (moderator), I would look at the thread as a whole and if a poster main efforts seemed to be to fan the flames and disrupt discussion, no matter how passionate, that poster would be the problem.
I remember in high school, there were usually provocateurs who would goad others into fighting someone else - "let's you and him fight" is the way we put it. They were cowards of course. But on the internet you don't have to worry about getting beat up so you can provoke without fear. But if the only intent is to provoke, fan flames, offend, ridicule, rather than discuss or debate...
That's the kind of thing I would remove from RF.
“That is ridicule, from the Catholic perspective it's ridicule of Jesus. But not from the non-Catholic side.”
From the non-Catholic side, it's still ridicule. It's ridicule of what Catholics hold sacred.
One doesn't have to believe what we believe to understand what we believe and thus to understand that it is ridicule of what we believe. I'm quite sure that all but the most stupid people understand that the example I gave was ridicule of what Catholics hold sacred.
I could certainly understand it when drstevej would ridicule the things that LDS hold sacred, even though I don't believe what the LDS believe. And it was offensive, immoral and indecent. It was a disgrace to this website.
It comes down to basic human decency, a quality of which most of the active non-Catholic posters here on FR in the Religion Forum have none.
There are many more non-Catholic posters here at FR, actual decent people, but the bad posting has driven out the good. So, many of them don't show up on a lot of open sewage threads.
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Instead of always obsessing with the process lets have some substance occasionally. thanx