I didn't see anything wrong with the posts for Free bibles and good deals on the artifacts that Red Dawn mentioned. There is no way those threads should have been locked. Instead the people that disrupted those threads should have been given 2 weeks off. As soon as the other troublemakers saw a few getting vacations, I think most of this would have stopped. Now if there were Hot Deals involving preaching and trying to convert someone (personally I have never seen one of those), then those threads should have been locked as well.
I hope the Mods reconsider their stance on this. At least they did not ban the Religious threads for good. If they just make some clear cut rules on how those types of posts can be worded and what they can offer then I don't see why they cannot be posted in the future and the crappers be dealt with appropriately.