It's a bit more complicated than "Treat others as you want to be treated yourself" (Will Fly - 18 Mar 11 - 06:43 AM)

After all, they might not want to be treated in the way you want to be treated yourself. As demonstrated by those who would see a request for prayers, or a promise to pray for another, as fighting talk.
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A pretty level-headed and open-minded thread on the whole, which is unusual in a thread touching on religion here. That's thanks to Joe for the way he launched it.

Interesting that the occasional posts that seem to tend to break the harmony appear to aspire to a tolerance that in practice they do not demonstrate in their selection of language...