While I'm not sure I have an actual stance on this question at hand, I want to say this: it [i]shouldn't[/i] have to be banned. People need to self-moderate. Most of the religion and politics topics I've ventured into have been mostly jackassery. I think it'd be neat if we could have occasional religion and politics discussion, but it's ridiculous how low quality ones seem to make up 60% of the first two pages. (And even if they were high quality, that wouldn't change the fact there's too many.) People need to lay off of it and find other things to talk about.