Reply #48: Oh, I do

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

and I put rude people on Ignore as well.

But what bothers me most is that a number of threads on R/T that started out being a discussion about one or more facets of religion or spirituality wind up basically getting hijacked by non-believers. There was a recent on about levels of consciousness that basically never got off the ground because of personal attacks by a couple of atheists against the OP. I alerted on every post they made (the OP person would not rise to their flames; they kept saying that the flamers were not on topic), and eventually the whole subthread was removed. But I feel that a number of people who wanted to discuss the topic were turned off by the flame war and didn't respond.

I don't mind a lively debate about religion/spirituality between believers and non-believers. But I do very much mind when discussion is basically blocked as it was in the example given. Perhaps there are times when an OP in R/T written by an atheist has been hijacked by believers, but I haven't seen one.