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To: Mad Dawg
And not one has been shown, yet.

I thought post 187 covered that. I am sure you can split hairs on that, but IMO it did.

216 posted on 07/25/2008 10:55:16 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Always Right
generally speaking     the man said ....

One can make lots of quotes say what one wants as long as one gets to choose what to leave out.

The charge was a blanket charge -- a blanket that still has covered none of the data presented in support of it.

Unless terms like "all", "not all", "some", "one", and "none" are views as rhetorical flourishes, that is. To me they have meaning, so that if I am accused of consigning non-Catholics to Hell, I take that to mean "ALL" non-catholics WILL go to hell, because it is no scandal if I suggest that SOME MAY go to hell. But all the quotes adduced in evidence of the charge imply or explicitly state some exception.But that wasn't the charge.

To me, this is "bait and switch". One charge is made explicitly, another vaguer and implicit charge is defended. To those who see no important difference between "some" and "all" I have nothing of a logical or argumentative nature to say.

229 posted on 07/25/2008 12:06:17 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (I don't believe in organized religion. I'm a Catholic.)
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