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So you have. And it's almost always the opposite of some other poster's
position.
You've admitted as much, more than once, in the past.
No, don't ask me for quotes or references. I got bored with that game years
ago, and you know that what I say here about your posting tendency is true.
> I have just learned that bashers don't take a stand until I have said
> something - anything - and then you all look for the slightest fault.
It never occurs to you that the bashers are bashing _you_ first and
foremost, and only incidentally whatever you claim to be defending?
Of course your faults (and they're rarely slight) are brought forward. This
is a donnybrook, triggered by your unwanted presence, and the responses to
you are counter-punches. The weapons are words.
Things like this have been happening to you since the days when you posted
to alt.military.retired and alt.flush.limpbag. And that was before the turn
of the century/milennium. About time you got used to it, wouldn't you say?
> Or you don't even have to wait long, instead, you just interpret what
> I said into some horrid piece-o-crap, and then you attack that.
> Tell me it aint so.
It ain't so. Avoid ambiguities and see what happens.
>>> Tommy-boy should cough up his belief first.
>>
>>Two things wrong with that.
>>First -- two people, in this instance, have asked you about your own
>>beliefs. (And you're the guy who once claimed he would answer any
>>questions
>>directed to him.)
>>Second -- thomas p's position on beliefs is well established on Usenet.
>>He's been around longer than either of us.
>
> Well then, he shouldn't be afraid to discuss his belief. Unless he is
> ... scared....
The only 'belief' an atheist can discuss is someone else's. Besides, it's
likely thomas p. has you plonked.
>>> Then I will be glad to discuss it with him.
>>
>>You won't discuss anything.
>>You'll pull up a hundred or so lines of crap you haven't read and pretend
>>it's your contribution to "discussion."
>
> Only when I find a "reader" who gets easily distracted.
Crap. You try that dodge on everyone.
> You forget that I am a Catholic. I have Faith. I believe in
> Christian priciples. I do not plan to change my mind any day soon.
No one expects you to change your mind.
As long as you continue to post outside of
alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic you're little more than a warble fly
whose larvae have no teeth.
So you are used as an object of amusement.
People get zits, no matter how much care they take of their skins. And zits
get popped.
Draw your own conclusion from that.
> Plus, I don't want to get into a deep discussion right now. I'll be
> gone before the basher actually provides something worthwhile to read.
> It takes almost forever to get to the real reason why someone hates
> the Catholics.
Try accepting the very first reason the 'basher' gives for disliking the
RCC -- the one given prior to your intrusion.
Anything said after your arrival is said primarily against you, not against
the RCC.
> They don't like to admit that they have a specific sin
> or moral defect that the Catholic church will not accept.
Consider this -- _you_ don't like to admit that they don't want to be
accepted by the RCC, that they've never been part of it or are glad they're
out of it, and they don't agree with the notions of sin you and the RCC
maintain.
Remember your own argument -- that sin, like criminal guilt in law, rests
with intent?
No one can sin against an injunction without first believing in it. There
is no intention to sin -- merely indifference to your rules.