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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]An experiment is not “bad faith” and it is not “trolling.”  I do research for a living, at a place you’ve heard of and respect. I do experiments all the time. I was demonstrating a double standard, and the demonstration was pretty effective. [/quote]

You should name the the place so that I would know not to take any of their research seriously. I cannot believe how obtuse you have been about this. In most cases, you simply cannot take a criticism about one religion and change the name of a religion and claim that the two things are equal. As has been pointed out by others in this thread, there are few to no counterparts to the Catholic Church as an institution. Religions overlap with culture, politics, and other aspects of societies. They are not easily interchangeable. Your "experiment" proved nothing and was completely worthless. The fact that you continue to believe otherwise does you no credit whatsoever.

You probably believe that your thread was deleted because you made criticisms of Muslims. In fact, it was deleted because it was not an attempt at discussion, but rather aimed at provoking a response. Posting to generate a response rather than valid discussion is practically the definition of trolling.
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Nope, not going to out myself just because you ask. And I won’t divulge the ivies that gave me my several degrees, either. Your constant and childish insults mean nothing to me. If I were you, I’d be embarrassed about all your pointless snark.

I asked about BANNING trolls, not simply deleting their threads. (Who’s being deliberately obtuse?) Because you did immediately ban me. Yet plenty of trolls remain in the religion forum, like the poster with the made-up story about Catholics and handshakes, who made at least 3 really obvious errors in a single OP. If alleged trolling (it was an experiment) is grounds for banning me, why are there still many trolls in the religion forum?[/quote]

Anyone following this discussion should really see this thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1028126.page

The previous poster apparently thinks the OP of the thread should be banned and the thread deleted because...well, I don't know why. It's apparently anti-Catholic or something.

PP, that is a harmless apocryphal story. None of us has evidence that the OP of the thread was not told that story by the Archbishop.  Among the "3 really obvious errors" are spelling "Archbishop" as "Arch Bishop", the anachronistic use of "handshake" in a period in which kisses were used as greetings, and something about succession which is actually pretty close to Catholic tradition so not a "really obvious error".

I am reaching the limits of my patience with both you and this thread. So, maybe take one more shot at presenting your case and I'll put this thread to rest.

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