I just don't understand what issue that you are so concerned with. Anything that has happened prior has been resolved and is in the past, so why does it keep being brought up? Why dwell on the past?
It's not just the past, it continues on. The very issue I've mentioned several times without ambiguity whatsoever are calling people devils, deceivers, influenced by evil and implying they are possessed by devils with an agenda to hurt the body of Christ for being different. This might be personality and/or religion. It's simply not true in many a case here. Ii myself have been on the receiving end of this in a very horrible exchange several months ago.
You might actually have missed those. The sheer hurt and pain it generates from misunderstanding is not something to be covered under the carpet. It's real, just as real as we are. It's not dwelling on the past if it continues into the present. I liken it to someone calling me a prostitute just because I wear pants and makeup by someone who's religion or sect prohibits it. I know that I'm not. So why would someone continually imply it when they know that I'm not but for their own subjective interpretation of scripture? It's just that type of thing.
This is spiritually harmful, not just against the targets, but against lurkers as well. If it were me looking for a religion, simply by the negativity in the form of witch hunts on here, I'd pass christianity up altogether. This is why, to me, it's important to discuss this issue so it can be understood just how much hurt and pain it causes.
One never knows where another is truly, spiritually. Something like this could potentially drive away even a believer who is weak and struggling to find the very love and concern that christians purport to emulate from Christ. We can all come to some kind of truce or understanding that we shouldn't do this to each other. And this is one reason I often open up new topics that wouldn't normally be posted here simply because there are no other roman catholics speaking up. I want people to know who we are just as other people make it known who they are. Protestants are not the only believers. And in these days, unity is desperately needed.
I myself am interested in learning about other people, their faith, denominations and outlook on life. And you are right to be concerned that we no give attention to the negativity and move to higher ground. But I disagree on how we can develop this needed respect for one another. People need to see christians as people who also encounter struggles and strife but the difference should lie in the way things are handled. I don't think anyone should ever think that, just because they are christian, they are perfect and live no strife. We must learn about each other without judgments IMHO because if applied incorrectly, they do a lot of spiritual damage to someone that Christ died for. Words kill as equally as a stone.