Posted on 09/09/2011 3:16:24 AM PDT by markomalley
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As far as I know there is no “Guide to Catholic Comboxes for Anti-Catholics” but I thought it would look something like this:
1) If the writer of a Catholic blog has raised the specter of something being immoral (like say abortion), the angry comboxer must bring up the sex abuse scandal as a way of discounting anything or everything any Catholic writer says about anything....
2) Anytime a conversation actually starts where something might be learned it’s always helpful to accuse the Pope of being a Nazi...
3) In the 21st century it’s become commonplace to accuse opponents of “hating.” These days, if someone isn’t publicly rooting for “gay marriage” you can say “You hate gays!” If the writer is male, also accuse him of being “homophobic.”...
4) Introduce the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Always a combox hit.
5) Confuse infallibility. Pretend to believe that when the Church says the Pope is infallible it means that Catholics believe he’s some kind of demigod...
6) Accuse Catholics of only caring about babies before they’re born....
7) Insist that 99.999999% of what Planned Parenthood does for women has nothing to do with abortion...
8) Say that the only reason the Church is against abortion and contraception is because they want more people in the pews to donate money...
9) Scream something IN CAPS about the separation of Church and state being in the Constitution...
10) If your comment is deleted, then sign in under another name and yell about being censored or something.
11) Write “Judge not lest ye be judged!” as often as possible...
12) If none of this works, then just string together a bunch of curses.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
And, yes, obviously, this does not have much to do with the religion debates on FR.
though the tactics used by the left seem strangely similar to those followed by the usual suspects on FR RF!
I’ll come back later with some popcorn. Right now it’s too early for the `anti-papists’ who tend to be:
Militant gays
Atheists (complete with sneering references to “skydaddy”)
Biblethumpers (quite common here in the South; oh, and Jesus never transformed water into demon alcohol)
Great guide, BTW. Helps to know what’s coming one’s way.
1. Ad Hominem
2. Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
3. (eyes blinking wildly, brain hurting badly) "What did he just say?"
And the fact that the actual percentage of priests involved in this is very small-- smaller than public school teacher pedophiles, smaller than Protestant minister pedophiles, etc. must be completely ignored.
They learned well.
If you give your enemy a baseball bat, do not act surprised when he kneecaps you with it.
Say that the only reason the Church is against abortion and contraception is because they want more people in the pews to donate money...
No, that is why many leaders in the American Catholic Church appear to be soft on illegal immigration. At least that’s how it appears.
There is no such thing or organization as the American Catholic Church — if there were it would be a dissendent group.
The Catholic Church in the USA is comprised of many of the 22 Catholic Churches. The Roman Catholic Church is only one of them.
These can also be applied to Christians in general.
Some with just a few changes others just as they are.
1) If the writer of a Christian blog has raised the specter of something being immoral (like say abortion), the angry comboxer must bring up the latest faith scandal as a way of discounting anything or everything any Christian writer says about anything....
3) In the 21st century it’s become commonplace to accuse opponents of “hating.” These days, if someone isn’t publicly rooting for “gay marriage” you can say “You hate gays!” If the writer is male, also accuse him of being “homophobic.”...
4) Introduce the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Always a combox hit.
6) Accuse pro life Christians of only caring about babies before they’re born....
7) Insist that 99.999999% of what Planned Parenthood does for women has nothing to do with abortion...
9) Scream something IN CAPS about the separation of Church and state being in the Constitution...
10) If your comment is deleted, then sign in under another name and yell about being censored or something.
11) Write “Judge not lest ye be judged!” as often as possible...
Need to add one. “remind people that Jesus never said anything about “that” and accuse them of being anti Christian. Be sure to let them know you are spiritual not religious.
I think that they truly believe it is a matter of Christian charity, compassion and care for the stranger. But I think the end result is disasterous both to those they want to help and those who find themselves displaced because of the large influx of illegal immigrants.
It is not compassion to encourage people to risk their lives to come her illegally. It is not compassion to encourage them to put themselves in the hands of criminals and risk exploitation or worse.
It is not compassion to dump them into an ever expanding labor pool thereby bringing down wages and the chance for true gainful employment for themselves and others.
True Christian charity is the root of social justice. Caring for the person does not have to conflict with the laws of the land or that we can not work within the system for reform.
If we care for the stranger without caring for our friends and neighbors we fail Christ. When we offer this care at the expense of another who also needs care it is theft.
***Biblethumpers (quite common here in the South; oh, and Jesus never transformed water into demon alcohol)****
Well MY PREACHER said he turned the water into “pure unfermented grape juice!”
There! ;-)
The really sad part is that I know several people who refer to themselves as Catholic who use several of those antics,as an excuse for not going to church anymore, including my sister.
One historian on the Reformation said that one important reason for the success of the movement was that there is nothing more sweet to many people’s ears than to hear that they no longer have to perform a certain duty. That does not mean that there were not many sincere Christians who rejected the authority of the Church because they thought not taught false doctrine. But they were a minority. More were like kids suddenly let out of school. This is why in cities like Geneva, the authorities had to impose very strict controls. So many monks and nuns who had fled their convents suddenly faced a new regime that was ever bit as strict as the monastic rule they had fled.
“Pure unfermented grape juice”
Too funny. Especially at the Cana wedding feast when the chief steward (i.e. caterer) berated the bridegroom for saving the best wine until after the wedding guests were too drunk to appreciate the difference.
If Jesus were like the Biblethumpers depict Him, He would have informed Mary His mother that He did not wish to add to the general atmosphere of drunkeness when she said, “Son, they have no wine”. Instead He said to the servants, “Now draw some out and take to the chief steward”.
If the chief steward had sampled anything other than the finest wine he had ever tasted, he would have thrown down his goblet and announced, “I quit!”
My fundamentalist coworkers always choked on this passage from Scripture. Especially the part where Jesus the Worker of Miracles is obeying orders from His mother Mary.
I never knew that the Virgin Mary was a Catholic.
;^)
Incorrect, once again.
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