Threads are started out of the blue with links to what the author thought was interesting reading. Often they are what you might call "gotcha moments". Other will object and post countering "gotcha moments". Clashes occur, sometimes ugly. It's all like political advertising. Why one should or should not buy republican, democrat, liberal, or conservative.
The two current threads in the NT section fall under that heading. While the claim that the one thread was cultural has some logic, in fact the point was that certain Chicagoans may not have had their best interest served by buying Democratic. It's political advertising at it's heart.
I guess what I most object to is the constant rehashing of the ideas of others (links galore). Each one followed by attacks and re-attacks.
While I want the political advertising gone, I still favor current events threads (or a section) which will tend to be much different even as straying into politics happens. We also seem to be minus a few bad apples.
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