In response to the thread title-- what I am thinking in response to them is that the fragile peace over "prayer" threads is strained to the limit whenever there is a run of faith-bashing threads. Georgiansilver's recent thread is one example of how hard it is to respect the wishes of the anti-religionists and keep the muzzle on. When it's clear others are wearing no restraints at all, it's galling to have one's own freedom of speech constantly harped at and openly, sometimes intentionally intimidated. If one REALLY wants freedom, one does well to look to others' as well.

There are 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. They happen to be what passes for PC proselytization in this group of people. You don't see the Christians condemning it the way our own personal reflections have been. If one REALLY wants tolerance, one does well to tolerate others as well.

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

~Susan