So cougs, must we take it that saying things like, “all religious people are stupid” is within the forum rules that state that, “the ethos of this forum must be one of mutual respect for everyone...when…abuse sets in, then you will have crossed the line.” etc.
So let’s replace “religious people” and take another segment of society eg, male or female, heterosexual or homosexual, black or white etc, would it be ok to make sweeping comments that they are all stupid too? I doubt it. So why is it ok to be rude and abusive towards religious people. In the past, STW has been accused of being tolerant toward religion bashing (or at least more tolerant) and you have rejected this. But hard to see how this can be the case again here.
Stil it has been a few weeks since the last one and like the usual threads I guess this will not be the last. But as you say maybe it’s easy to simply misunderstand comments like the one highlighted?!?