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You wrote:

“Vlad . . . you’re a nice person. I mostly get along with you. And as I understand it, although you’re not dogmatic about it your personal interpretation of Genesis is similar to mine.”

Guilty as charged.

“However (and if you say these things to simply cause me pain then it does you no credit) I wish you would stop dismissing my own personal experiences of the Catholic Church.”

1) If what I have been saying to you causes pain, then you really need to stay away from the internet forever. Seriously, forever.

2) What I have been “dismissing” - and actually I have demanded evidence rather than merely dismiss what you’ve said - is your claim that OBJECTIVELY certain things are when they clearly are NOT. If you want to tell me that you see the world in a skewed way, fine. But to claim that something is objectively so, not be able to defend that claim in any way, and then tell me you’re hurt over the fact that I demanded evidence? Well, that means you need a new hobby. Clearly posting here is simply too difficult for you. And if you think that I am saying this to hurt your fellings, you’re wrong again.

You asked me what universe I lived in. I told you I lived in the one where evidence still mattered and that you should come visit sometime. Now, does that really hurt your feelings? And if it is hurtful to you, then how could you not - in your own opinion and to your own standards - see how your comment to me must be hurtful. Mind you, I didn’t find it hurtful, but by your standards you must find your own statement to me hurtful. Think on that.

“You act as if all my animus is based on absolutely nothing.”

No, I don’t. I act as if you have an obsession that cliuds your judgment of everything and compells you to post about it even in threads where it makes little or no sense. And that is EXACTLY the case. I am not the first person to point that out to you either.

“Please believe me when I say you have no idea how hard I tried and what I went through with. And you’re denying this doesn’t change it one bit, though it pricks to know that I cannot prove anything to you.”

I think you need to do a reality check. Where in this thread did I deny that how hard you tried or what you went through? What I challenged you on were your sweeping comments about things you DID NOT TRY and DID NOT GO THROUGH. You made comments that were so sweeping - they were not about you at all - but about the ENTIRE Catholic Church, the ENTIRE field of apologetics, and just about every RCIA class in existence by implication.

“I suggest we end this conversation amicably at this point.”

I never viewed it as anything but amicable. Look at my last comment at the bottom of post #11.

I have dealt with the claims you made about the Church. You seem to respond by insisting that I am dismissing your personal experiences. Your personal experiences are not the Church. I do not confuse the two.