Speaking as your friend, Ben, what are you looking for in these discussions? What role do you want us to play? Because I think we can all agree to these basic assertions:

- Religious extremism usually leads to bad outcomes that may include persecution, murder and genocide

- Christian religious extremism exists in the United States

- Christian religious extremists seek to impose their extreme views on those who are not religiously extreme

- Everyone should be vigilant of the agents of extremism lest they bring about negative impacts upon the rest of us, be those negative impacts mild or catastrophic

I think the sticking point we always fight is your assertion that Christianity is always bad. I further think that you refuse to acknowledge the breadth of Christian beliefs, instead choosing to define those who aren't extreme as "not Christian." And I think these discussions get contentious because we cannot engage in this discussion with you without your attempts to force us to defend Christian extremism as defined fluidly by you.

So... speaking only for myself. I would like to give you the discussion you crave, so long as it's actually a discussion, rather than "I've been banned from all other forms of social media and am feeling pugnacious so somebody hold this straw man for me so I can feel better about myself."

So dig deep, my friend. What are you looking for here? Because if we can give it to you without you putting words in our mouths or accusing us of positions we don't hold, I for one am here for it.