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In reply to the discussion: This is hard... [View all]RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)Some of the religious-bashing here is really vile and despicable and -particularly if you happen to be Catholic or Islamic -I can only imagine what you must feel coming on here sometimes. There are lots of good, open-minded, tolerant people on here but so often they get drowned out by the hateful and hurtful comments, jeers and insults of more than a few.
It's sad that, on a liberal/progressive forums, the hatred is driving you away. It seems that sometimes we have more in common with our Freeper "friends" than we think.
In all your incarnations here, you've been an asset to DU and I've learned much from you. I hope you either reconsider and things get better on here. But the forum will be the worse for having lost you if you do permanently