If I state a fact - and I know it is a fact - and I just checked this fact on the internet this morning using google, then I expect the average lazy anti-Catholic can rouse himself from his intellectual laziness and use google just as easily as I did.
Really. You state a fact. Okay. Well, what terms did you use to search for in Google? What didn't you exclude or include? How is he "average lazy anti-catholic" supposed to do if he doesn't know WHAT you searched for of HOW you searched for it? I suppose we lazy anti-catholics are going to have to learn to read your mind so that we can then go out, and satisfy you by searching for the "facts" on Google.
You see, if you attribute the source, one can see that the fact is actually, a fact.
Or not.
Until mind reading becomes a commonplace event, it's going to be mighty hard to satisfy your request. But, If you want to actually appear to be using trustworthy "facts," it's up to you to provide it to us lazy anti-cathoics. Otherwise, we could just assume your "facts" are made up from whole cloth.
Hoss
“Intellectual laziness has nothing to do with it, unless it’s on the part of someone posting things without attribution.”
You can always do a little work or not. The choice is yours.
“Well, what terms did you use to search for in Google?”
Find it on your own. It’s G-O-O-G-L-E. How hard can it be?
“What didn’t you exclude or include?”
I included exactly what was necessary and what I knew would work from previous finds. I excluded everything else.
“How is he “average lazy anti-catholic” supposed to do if he doesn’t know WHAT you searched for of HOW you searched for it?”
It’s google. There’s effectively one way to search - you put words in the search box. Does that give you any ideas of how to do this ‘cause I am most certainly not going to help you do it. If I can do it - and I did this morning - than you can too. It’s just that simple.
“I suppose we lazy anti-catholics are going to have to learn to read your mind so that we can then go out, and satisfy you by searching for the “facts” on Google.”
You don’t have to satisfy me. This is all about satisfying you isn’t it? I didn’t post any links so you’re not satisfied, right? I hope you enjoy that lack of satisfaction because you’re only going to get more of it at this rate.
“You see, if you attribute the source, one can see that the fact is actually, a fact.”
Since I KNOW it is a fact I don’t have to “satisfy” you to have validation that it is a fact. I know it is a fact because I have already seen that it is factual. This sort of thing where a Protestant anti-Catholic makes a statement about something he apparently knows nothing about and then starts running in circles when evidence is posted happens all the time. Example on a related topic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3044370/posts
I have seen that SO MANY TIMES that now I often simply refuse to do the work the Protestant anti-Catholic should be willing to do themselves.
“Until mind reading becomes a commonplace event, it’s going to be mighty hard to satisfy your request.”
No, it isn’t. You see google is easy to use. If you want to do the research, do it. If you don’t want to, then don’t.
“But, If you want to actually appear to be using trustworthy “facts,” it’s up to you to provide it to us lazy anti-cathoics.”
No. I know what I posted is absolutely correct. Whether or not you consider it to be “trustworthy” is completely irrelevant to me since I don’t believe you are remotely interested in the truth in the first place. Again, look at the thread I posted a link to. I posted evidence. It was irrefutable. Did it matter? Did it matter in the least? No. Anti-Catholics DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH.
“Otherwise, we could just assume your “facts” are made up from whole cloth.”
I think the anti-Catholic should just go ahead and assume that. After all he would be wrong, but at least if someone does that he won’t feel any need to be intellectually and morally dishonest on top of it by pretending evidence given him was never actually given him, right? So the anti-Catholic should just go ahead and assume whatever he wants since that is how it always goes anyway no matter how much evidence is posted anyway. The truth doesn’t matter to anti-Catholics. They prove it here every day.