I behold a smoking ruin.
There will never be civility in the Religion Forum. Someone will always say something shockingly inane and then it's "Annie get your gun", "Katie bar the door" and "Cletus hold my beer and watch this".
You wanna know why this thread is the state it's in? Go look at post 64, then 80, 85, 91 and then it just explodes. That's not to say that after the opening shots Catholic didn't provoke further madness. The bottom line remains: there are people who appear to be convinced that Catholicism is totally demonic and they will never miss an opportunity to drive that opinion down the throat of the nearest Catholic.
So, every thread, that is not a caucus thread is capable of turning into one of these mega sado-evangelism threads at the drop of a hat. When this one finally dies the next one will erupt within hours and the same people will be saying the same things in the same manner. A Catholic may start the next one, who knows. The fact remains, nobody is willing to say: This time, just once, nobody dies today.
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. . . The bottom line remains: there are people who appear to be convinced that Proddy-ism is totally demonic and they will never miss an opportunity to drive that opinion down the throat of the nearest Proddy. . . .