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Yes, I believe the Religion Moderator encourages battles as well, and it IS discouraging.

I think the comment onyx mentioned from CynicalBear, regarding more Catholics being in hell than Muslims, should be removed, just like I thought a photograph of a prominent Catholic, marked up to look like Satan, fell into that same category as well. Because it wasn't removed, I pulled off the site for several months, and when I returned, I decided to pass on further donations and just not post any more threads to balance things out.

I didn't realize so many others were similarly discouraged, and will back off again soon myself even though I do enjoy the commentary of most of the Catholics here, and a couple-few of the non-Catholics as well.

SWEETEST mlizzy,

Like I said in my original post to Cicero, I think our RM does a fantastic job. The battles only exist because some of us Catholics are baited into replying to the egregious "articles" posted by a certain few, many of which are dated as far back as 2010.

My advice is to let those people have their "articles" all to themselves. Jesus weeps. Lord have mercy.

Think about it, it's only a limited few, who spend hours a day here, expressing "their opinions." Ignore them and their threads.

God bless and keep you all.

There are really only two options. Either we have forums or we have echo chambers.

Currently we have forums on 'open' RF threads and echo chambers on "caucus' threads. This is a compromise

Posters who cannot bear to have their deeply held religious beliefs deplored or ridiculed must IGNORE 'open' RF threads altogether otherwise they will be miserable and will make the debate miserable for everyone else.

If this is you, then leave the debate to the thick-skinned in your religious group and instead post to RF threads labeled caucus, ecumenical, prayer or devotional.

If you refuse to comply and instead disturb the debate with your personal offenses, then you are making the thread 'about' yourself which is also a form of "making it personal" - selfishly blocking others, even your own co-religiomists from declaring their own faith and their reason.