[Alex Murphy]

I remember about 2 years ago a thread was moved from here to the Smokey Back Room and I was the subject of some pretty vicious personal attacks by a well known FRoman Catholic who sad something to the effect of “Now I can really tell you what I thinks about you”....How will moving Religious discussions to an lightly moderated area protect FROman Catholic concerns?

IMO that's exactly what some of these Catholics are asking for, i.e. for Free Republic to move all religious discussion out from under any sort of moderation, because the current Religion Moderator will not allow Catholics to use destructive personal language in posts made about certain Protestants.

In other words, I think the Catholics want sanctioning, i.e. "space to destroy".

[mlizzy]

IMO that's exactly what some of these Catholics are asking for, i.e. for Free Republic to move all religious discussion out from under any sort of moderation, because the current Religion Moderator will not allow Catholics to use destructive personal language in posts made about certain Protestants. In other words, I think the Catholics want sanctioning, i.e. "space to destroy".

It would be interesting to see how well things would function with a [well-schooled] devout Roman Catholic sharing in the duties of moderating in the [current] Religion Forum, if they were interested in doing so. I can name three or four who would be respectful [and evidently so can boatbums as she mentioned it in previous commentary]. It's the lukewarm [or impatient] Catholic who is the troublemaker. And "space to destroy" goes both ways. You can search this thread for examples if you like.

[Grateful2God]

In other words, I think the Catholics want sanctioning, i.e. "space to destroy".

As a (sometimes pesky 😉) forum member, you're entitled to your opinion. As moderator, though, that opinion expressed above would reflect partiality.

Somehow, I think it's a bit of a relief to know. This whole thing is like an Agatha Christie novel. For all we know, some of the rowdiest posters could be Moderators as well, stimulating discussion and general infighting, while simultaneously being assigned to keep things under control. Gotta be quite a juggling act, if that's the case. Just an observation.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Not at all. The current RF is simply a cause for scandal. All these “Christians” fighting each other tooth and nail serves only the devil and drives away anyone who is honestly seeking the Truth. There is no evangelization going on in this kind of behavior. Frankly it would be too kind to even call it proselytizing. It needs to be eliminated for the good of the souls who might still be receptive to Truth because the vile and toxic behavior is driving them away from Christianity.