I don't care anything about car racing or basketball and very little for the NFL. When I see a thread about any of them I don't open it and I certainly don't post comments expressing how much I think those sports suck. Hint.
Puzzles me why the same thing can't apply to "religion" or anything else.
Here's a hint: because this is a business (i.e., Rick receives revenue from it and is legally responsible for it).
For the same reason that porn is yanked off of here, as well as some of the more egregious racism and other filth that pops up from time to time, religious threads get scrutiny because it can and does potentially threaten his business and his legal responsibility. The type of stuff that was posted under "religious" threads that lead to the making of CATC not visible to the public (and seems to be cropping up again) directly threatened Rick's business relationship with sponsors and possibly him personally for at least implicitly condoning such activities on his site.
Now, when NASCAR or the NFL or basketball threads start doing the same then they'll get the same scrutiny and treatment.