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Peter, I'll grant you your points. I'm just trying to indicate why people might react they way they do. It might not be because they don't respect the religion, but they don't like the message being pushed on them. And a spam bot is exactly that.

I think you see a lot more civil dialogue in some of the other threads, such as the "is a god or not" thread. Yeah, the rhetoric gets heated, but from both sides. I will say that the Christians tend to take more than their fair share of hits, but that should not be totally unexpected. Religion and politics are guaranteed to get some slings and arrows. That doesn't excuse it, but again I'm just trying to frame the dynamic.

From the non-believer standpoint, there often is a condescending tone in the message. Telling someone they are going to hell if they don't believe...well, how would you expect someone to respond? That is a very provacative statement. If a Muslim came on here and said, "all you Christians will burn because you don't believe in Allah" what do you think the response would be?

And I'm actually a believer, but not in the traditional organized religion sense...so I kinda straddle this issue.