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I didn't know we even HAD a religion moderator. I've also never heard of open and closed threads. I thought 'closed' meant that no more replies were able to be posted, but I guess it means something else here.

I'm still shocked that someone can post a thread and bash the Catholic religion right in the title, and get away with it. Makes me look at FR in a new way.

So, Catholic bashing is allowed here. And someone can deliberately start a fight (er, uh, thread).

What use is a religion moderator if 'anything goes'?

Religious debate requires a different style of moderating, therefore the designation of a "Religion Moderator."

So, Catholic bashing is allowed here. And someone can deliberately start a fight (er, uh, thread).

Flame wars are not tolerated. Even attributing motives or reading minds of other posters is not tolerated.

But anti-[pick a belief] threads are allowed as long as they are open threads so they can rebutted and as long as they don't cross the line into hate mongering (Jack Chick et al.)

For guidelines pertaining to the Religion Forum, click on my profile page.

With all due respect, if the “bashing” bothers you then this kind of thread may be more trouble than it is worth for you.

I like threads like this. Gives me a chance to spout off. ;)

I'm still shocked that someone can post a thread and bash the Catholic religion right in the title, and get away with it. Makes me look at FR in a new way.

Not that I'm defending the bashing of Catholicism in any way (I'm Catholic!), the reason this can be done, as far as I understand it, is because of your previous question about "open" or "closed" threads. There are two kinds of threads in the Religion Forum, one, where anything but personal attacks on another FReeper is permitted, and another, called "devotional" threads where no bashing of any kind is allowed. That is, if an anti-Catholic came into a Catholic Devotional thread and started talking like they do on the open threads, then they would be reprimanded and/or suspended/banned.

As far as I understand it, this system seems to be the only way to continue to have discussions (as free as possible) about different faiths, as well as have a place where one can, if one wishes, simply participate in devotional activities where no fighting is allowed. IOW, it's a compromise.

But the RM could and does explain it better. I think the RM's profile page has a detailed explanation of all these things too.

I didn't know we even HAD a religion moderator. I've also never heard of open and closed threads. I thought 'closed' meant that no more replies were able to be posted, but I guess it means something else here.

I'm still shocked that someone can post a thread and bash the Catholic religion right in the title, and get away with it. Makes me look at FR in a new way.

So, Catholic bashing is allowed here. And someone can deliberately start a fight (er, uh, thread).

What use is a religion moderator if 'anything goes'?

You know very little for one who's been around for over 7 years. Rip Van Winkle syndrome?

The following goes back a few years but it is a good example of a Catholic bashing thread. Oops, my mistake. I should have noted it was a Protestant bashing thread.

Thomas A. Droleskey on the Lies of Protestantism

This is the nature of the beast. If you don't like just stay away.

It’s called the First Amendment. And, if we don’t make it personal, anything can go.