No debate of any kind is tolerable on RF threads labeled Devotional.
The religion moderator doesn’t agree with every form of Christianity brought up on Free Republic. He does protect threads marked as devotional as it is a place for like-minded people to gather w/o the arrows of those who believe differently. He’s not the Pope of Free Republic.
If you want to discuss Joel from different points of view, post an open thread like this one. Just don’t engage in personal attacks on other Freepers in open discussion threads. Like don’t say, for example, “Vision, you are a devil for listening to and believing in Joel.” Keep comments in the format of a general discussion about the topic in open threads.