You can't expect discussion about weighty topics that are important facets and cornerstones in people's lives to not come with emotional baggage. I'm thinking that the admins decided that is was favoritism and if people want to debate or share opinions there is a debate section with rules for that. If you need civil discourse with stricter rules then debate is probably a good section for that. I was on this forum some time ago and wasn't liked at all by a lot of people, but I don't think I would have ever thought of asking for a separate place. I'm not familiar with a lot of the heated poop that's apparently been flying lately, so maybe it's gotten terribly worse. I seriously doubt it though.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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