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I didn't make a post with no substance at all. The immediate result was a personal attack. I try not to reward that kind of thing too much unless the need is really pressing. Here, it's not. More than that, this poster is both freaked out and invested to the hilt in his ideas. There will be no persuading him, but an infinity of boring time could be spent on it to no avail. This kind of situation with no positive outcome is the reason I rarely contribute to threads about or substantially about religion. I slipped up this time and got repaid for it with the same pay-off you get 99% of the time. This is why I don't hang around the politics forum, too.

You're right, I usually do leave a topic when it gets pointless, and stop responding to specific posters when they act like jerks. In poker parlance, I don't believe in throwing good money after bad.