Eutychus & Budge?

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Jesuspaidtheprice' post='1071258' date='Sep 22 2006, 11:59 AM']
Are there any scholarly, or at least semi-scholarly Catholic boards where serious issues can be discussed without all of this non-sense that so often creeps up on internet bulletin boards?
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Which nonsense? You mean the type where anti-Catholics log in, tell faithful Catholics what they are "supposed to believe" and what the Church "believes," then debunk the strawman argument and never pay one moment's attention to the fact that faithful Catholics know what the Church teaches better than Jack Chick does? Or did you mean some other type of nonsense?

[Budge]

Raphael...

Some claim that anyone who doesnt agree with them is a LIAR.

Edited September 22, 2006 by Budge

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Budge' post='1071291' date='Sep 22 2006, 12:30 PM']
Raphael...I know everyones a "liar" that doesnt agree with you.
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Budge, there are many who disagree with me for honest reasons and I respect them for it. There are others who disagree with me because they detest the truth. It's one thing to claim that Catholicism isn't true. It's an entirely different thing to make up a farce of Catholicism and claim that isn't true. It's simply not honest. It's deceitful, dishonest, and dishonorable. At the very least, you could use as the norm of Catholic doctrine something that Catholicism actually holds to be true, such as the Catechism. You don't do that. Instead, you find little articles from anti-Catholics or from people who mistakenly think they are Catholic and try to take those as general statements on what Catholics believe. You fail to realize that Christ Himself said there would be bad fruit on the vine and that it would be pruned. If you really think you can judge Christ, who is the vine, by some of the bad fruit on the branches ripe for pruning, then it is still Christ whom you judge.

Inflammatory and loaded statements which seem to claim that I'm calling you a liar are simply misleading. I suggest you act like St. Paul and put away childish things.

Edited September 22, 2006 by Raphael

[cmotherofpirl]

This will be enforced:
Personal Attacks
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If you wish is debate something frame it within the above terms or you will be warned or suspended. Most people here are members of the Catholic Church, not "Catholic Church". The head of our Church is Benedict 16th, not Benny.
If you cannot be respectful, play elsewhere.

[Norseman82]

By the way...where has Ironmonk been all this time???

[Jesuspaidtheprice]

I'll take that as a no.

[Era Might]

It's the nature of the Internet that drama will arise, usually because of trolls.

You can try Dave Armstrong's blog:

[url="http://socrates58.blogspot.com"]http://socrates58.blogspot.com[/url]

It's not immune to drama, but there are a lot of good discussions there.

Also try the Catholic Answers forum:

[url="http://forums.catholic.com/"]http://forums.catholic.com/[/url]

Edited September 22, 2006 by Era Might

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Jesuspaidtheprice' post='1071538' date='Sep 22 2006, 04:13 PM']
I'll take that as a no.
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Well, you still need to specify the type of nonsense you meant...