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It's all about taking the heat. No it isn't. Well why does just about every online discussion forum have someone posting the line, "If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen?" Things do get heated but it's just your opinion that it's all about taking the heat. What statistics have you got that prove your claim? I don't need statistics because it's obvious it's all about taking the heat. People who hide behind statistics usually want to manipulate the truth. Everyone risks being stigmatised because of what they post so that should be part of the equation. Oh, so there's an equation now. How can you have an equation without statistics being a factor? That's a good point. I know some atheists live to flame any Christian they can lock horns with, so if a survey was done to work out a percentage of Christians who have been flamed by an atheist in an online forum then we would have our statistic. Hang on. Aren't you assuming that it's only the atheists doing the flaming? Isn't it just as much the Christians flaming the atheists and giving them heat? Maybe, but what would be the benefit? There needs to be some self-control, and once it becomes obvious the only reason an atheist is on a particular Christian forum is to generate some heat then the Christian should disengage. That's a cool idea in theory but have you noticed that controversial issues and heated discussions attract way more attention than more civilised threads? Yeah. I have noticed that. Years ago I was on a non-specific forum where the flaming of Christians was demonic. Talk about heated opposition to belief in God...I Praise God though because the Holy Spirit gave me a season to present answers to every objection without responding to the personal attacks, but there comes a point where it is casting pearls before swine. So do you still think it's all about taking the heat if you go online in a forum? Yes...to a certain degree - and I've got a scriptures for it. 1Peter 1:6-7 (6) Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations: (7) That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: James 3:5-6 (5) Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles! (6) And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.