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To: wideawake; sinkspur

The article is nevertheless a valid and coherent expression of what's wrong with JPII's approach to the faith. The fact of Derksen's recent conversion to sedevacantism--this article was written two years ago--in no way invalidates the cogent argument he presents.


10 posted on 07/07/2004 8:12:35 AM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio; sinkspur
The article is nevertheless a valid and coherent expression of what's wrong with JPII's approach to the faith.

I am in disagreement with you here. His analysis is not philosophically coherent and his argument is therefore invalid.

The fact of Derksen's recent conversion to sedevacantism--this article was written two years ago--in no way invalidates the cogent argument he presents.

I agree with you that the mere fact of his sedevacantism does not mean that his arguments are automatically wrong.

This is why I mentioned his philosophical incoherence as a reason to disregard Maximilian's estimation of his views.

By the way, thank you for describing his position so accurately and pithily as a "conversion to sedevacantism."

Sedevacantism is indeed a separate, non-Catholic religion and one must effectively convert from Catholicism in order to become a sedevacantist.

13 posted on 07/07/2004 8:26:31 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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