Again, thank you. You analogy is both brief (thank you) and insightful.
You have expressed concisely in only 50+ words exactly what I have been thinking for some time, as I have watched the “wholesale” (favorite word of one poster) condemnation of the Catholic faith and then not wanting it to be perceived as a personal attack that affects the individual. At which point, I have observed, that any response from individuals is disingenuously labeled as “whining” or obfuscation.
In line with your post, I understand a recent post made by tax-chick:
“Every plural-pronoun group is made up of individuals about whose belief we can legitimately claim to know very little”
That was a good post by betty_boop.
Mine was not quite as articulate ;-), but was an attempt to convey the fallacious of the dichotomy of “you Catholics” vs. “we non-Catholics,” or vice-versa, when it is erroneous to attribute homogeneous beliefs to either set, and overreaching to claim knowledge of the specific beliefs of any individual member.
I guess that was garbled, too. Oh, dear, a strange cat is here to taunt my petz.
We should make a BILLBOARD of Tax-chick's seminal insight here!!! And post it on every highway and byway between now and Kingdom come!
Just my humble opinion, for what it's worth.