ROB:
“what does my remark have to do with MO?”
People associating themselves with the MO ideology often (and ridiculously) attempt to to label every chumra “sinas chinom”, as you just did.
“This was an attempt by chez11 to “passel” thousands of Jews… So, it is disingenious of you to hide behind “a halachic discussion”, it wasn’t”
Who’s throwing around accusations now?
All chez11 did was ask – yes, ask – if people espousing a certain belief are, according to the opinion of R’ Elyashiv, halachicly considered to be apikursim. Sounds like a halachic discussion to me.
“you should check some of the subsequent comments by others”
Name them.
“To assert that someone who believes in an evolutionary world is a “kofer’ and an “apikores’ just deepens the chasm that is between some on the extreme right of the spectrum and the other jews.”
Could be. However, if R’ Elyashiv said that they are apikursim, you cannot demand that the Halacha be changed in the interests of bringing us closer our secular brethren. That’s just not how Judaism works.