Incidentally, I feel I should take issue with this:

"Invariably, the insults begin whenever people of no faith (aetheists, or whatever they delight in badging themselves as) drop into a thread discussin faith..."

I'm not aware. looking back at the original post, that this was intended as a thread for religious people to discuss their faith. Neither do I think that this forum would be the ideal place to try to do that. As far as I know, anyone here can drop into any thread they like and all have equal right to post.

And I presume the person who posted the above quote is unaware of the irony therein.