your level, undemocratic best to allow us even to discuss what we believe to be the cause of all religious persecution - the enormous power possessed by some Churches over the minds and bodies of its followers.

I'm puzzled by what Jim means by saying Keith has been doing his best in an undemocratic way not to allow discussion of such matters. (Well you actually say the opposite, but I assume that "not" got accidentally left out. ) That would imply that he had been doing something more than making posts here, or that he possesses or seeks to exert some kind of power over how the Mudcat is operated.

As for the suggestion that the cause of all religious persecution is the enormous power possessed by some Churches, I take it that the term "Churches" is used in an unusual sense to refer to any kind of religious organisation or movement whether Christian or whatever.   Even so, I'm very doubtful if that stands up to examination. A far more powerful cause of most persecution of religious minorities lies in popular prejudice against people who are seen as different. As is the case with persecution of other "outsiders". "Churches" can act in such as way as to encourage or to oppose this. Either way its origins are elsewhere, and have very little indeed to do with religious beliefs, either of persecutors or victims.