These are the kind of things that lead me to believe the Moderators should be a little less hostile to those who don't think the sun rises and sets on TFP.
but, apparently, they don't want to clear the air.
I am not sure what you are refering to. So just as a general information: When moderators are posting and discussing here in the forum, they do not post as moderators but as normal forum users. They post their own opinion (which may be as right or wrong as anyone else's), they may be polite, sarcastic, helpful, unhelpful, rather impolite, like anybody else. They also have to play by forum rules like everyone else, and if not can simply be reported, like everyone else.
The only time moderators act as moderators is when they either give a friendly or not so friendly warning that someone or some thread is getting flamey, or when they give out an official warning because someone overstepped. An official warning is given because one of the rules in the forum guidelines was violated, independent of whether the posting in question was for or against TFP. If anyone thinks he unjustly got a warning he can ask a moderator per **private message** to explain it to him or check it again.