The best defense is to claim offense.

[skepticscott]

9. Sorry, but baloney

This "group" that you attempt to characterize so badly calls it like it is when it sees long-debunked nonsense and fallacious arguments used to support a point. That's one of the things that's supposed to happen on a discussion board, wouldn't you agree? When we've seen the same bogus arguments and tactics a hundred times over, the right to patience and pleasantry has been stretched past ots limit. And requests are made constantly for actual evidence to back up claims, and for direct answers to simple questions that bear directly on the issue being debated. And almost as regularly, these are ducked, dodged and avoided, or we're told straight out, "I refuse to discuss that with you". What do such tactics deserve?

NO ONE here is ever "shut up" by the kinds of "bullying tactics" you claim are used. NO ONE is preventing from posting what they choose to, anywhere or at any time. And please, why don't you lay out the last 5 or 10 posts that have been hidden here, and justify your claim that they constitute "bully tactics to shovel their belief system down the throats of others". You won't, because you you can't, though I suspect you'll spend a few rambling paragraphs trying to deflect from your inability to support your own claim.