I've observed the same phenomenon here, ~S~. And I think that, rather than...

IMO this forum suffers not so much from nastiness, as infantile hypocrisy.

I think the forum suffers from a mistaken notion of "neutrality" where issues of faith are concerned. Those that don't disapprove of the...

posts here every day that are frankly slanted by atheism, paganism, and every philosophy under the sun (including hodgepodges of personal belief systems cobbled together from one or more cults that have actually harmed people). Some of them read as attempts at persuasion-- their own form of proselytization.

...think of themselves in some sort of "neutral" terms. Seems that only one way of faith is the only thing percieved as non-neutral -- therefore, by that kind of default setting, everything offered by that group, and that group alone, is seen as proselytizing.