Jack the Sailor,
Your point is well taken. Good advice.

I shall take your advice, for the benefit of others, who are not interested in such foolish stuff that some posters try and stimulate.

I do notice that most of the religion threads do get sidelined by a few of the same posters who "try hard" to stimulate off topic emotion rather than content..for whatever their personal reasons. Most of these threads wind up to be name calling by less than a half dozen folks. Pay particular attention to the Moral Atheist one that was quite interesting until those folks began to get involved.

Thanks for the wise suggestion.