[Thumper1960]

Get real, bubba.

There is a difference between criticism and mockery. To wit.

Criticism: The act of criticizing, especially adversely. A critical comment or judgment.
The practice of analyzing, classifying, interpreting, or evaluating literary or other artistic works. A critical article or essay; a critique. The investigation of the origin and history of literary documents; textual criticism.

Mockery: Scornfully contemptuous ridicule; derision. A specific act of ridicule or derision. An object of scorn or ridicule: made a mockery of the rules. A false, derisive, or impudent imitation: The trial was a mockery of justice. Something ludicrously futile or unsuitable: The few packages of food seemed a mockery in the face of such enormous destitution.

Failure to realize the difference proves, again, the bankruptcy of professorial pretendence.

[Right Wing Professor]

There is a difference between criticism and mockery.

Sure. And some things deserve only mockery...

Failure to realize the difference proves, again, the bankruptcy of professorial pretendence.

...; for example, worthy of mockery are people who make up words like 'pretendence'.

[GOPPachyderm]

Appreciate your response to the Right Wing Professor who apparently feels Bible-believing Christians can be treated with this kind of contempt. And if there isn't such a word as pretendance, there ought to be!