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“You keep pushing the envelope of “making it personal” on this thread by telling other Freepers, individually, that they will fail in their debate with you and how superior you are to them.
Tone it down.”

So is noting failure BEFORE it happens (but inevitably will happen) the “pushing the envelope of “making it personal”” or is it noting their repeated failures after the fact that is the problem?

When can failure be noted? If you know someone will fail because there is no way for them to succeed (e.g. “Prove George Washington wasn’t the first U.S. president”) how is it “pushing the envelope of “making it personal”” to note what is irrefutably true?

Also, what about this: “Why do you disagree with the RCC position?” I disagree with no Catholic position yet the question is asked to me as if I did. How is that not “pushing the envelope of “making it personal””? Is it the inclusion of a question mark? Then I suppose I could just as well do this: “When you fail (?) - and you will (?) - what will we learn from your failure (?)” And that would make everything hunky dory, right?

In my experience on the religion forum I've only seen the most knowledgeable people get reprimanded by responding to posters who spout vicious and flagrantly wrong propaganda time and time again. Don't even get me started on the thread hijackings.

It gets tiring responding to the same errors argued by the same people. It's not making it personal to say they will fail when they've done so for the same argument on other threads. At what point do you tell someone who makes constant slurs against another's religion to back up their claims or shut up? Maybe reeling in the repeat slanderers would make the religion forum a little less toxic.

I'd also like to know the ratio of Protestants to Catholics that moderate the religion forum.

When you make the thread "about" YOURSELF - your superiority and the inferiority of others compared to you - it IS also "making it personal."

A little of that behavior goes a long way. Tone it down.

DarkSavant, we moderators do not reveal our Freeper names or our religious beliefs.