Anti-Judaism is to be expected in “open” religious debate just like anti-Christianity, but ping me to any anti-Semitic posts because that is hate mongering and not allowed at all on Free Republic.
Thin-skinned posters on “open” RF threads are the disruptors. They often take statements against their deeply held beliefs very personally. And whereas I can and do intervene to prevent posters from “making it personal” there is nothing I can do to keep a poster from “taking it personally.” And some posters are drawn like a moth to the flame.
A frequent example of thin-skin is the poster’s claim of bigotry and more specifically, anti- bigotry internalized (e.g. anti-Catholic, anti-Protestant, anti-Mormon) rather than conceptualized (e.g. anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism, anti-Mormonism.)
The title of this article expresses that very kind of internalizing.
It should also be noted that there is a form of "anti" religious material which is hate mongering because it is intended to engender hatred in the reader usually by fabricating outrageous claims. That type of material (e.g. Chick publications, the false Jesuit Oath, Christian Identity, Islamic Fundamentalism) is not allowed on Free Republic at all.
For example, highlighting historical atrocities does not constitute hate mongering - claiming atrocities without any historical basis would likely be considered hate mongering.
But hate mongering is a high bar and statements which condemn religious beliefs are not automatically hate mongering. It is not at all unusual when one belief spawns from another that both condemn the other in harsh terms, e.g. heretic, anathema, apostate, cult, sect, Satanic. Such terms are often part of the poster's deeply held beliefs and may be used in the poster's holy writings. And such terms do not automatically constitute hate mongering.
So hopefully this discussion will explore the differences between internalizing and conceptualizing - condemnations and hate mongering - and help posters look at themselves whether they should ignore “open” RF threads altogether and instead post to threads labeled “caucus” “ecumenical” “prayer” or “devotional.”
Sure will. Most is not in the religion forum.