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To: lastchance
You disagree with it because you believe

Attributing motive is a form of "making it personal." It is mind reading.

The reason it is intolerable to accuse another RF poster of telling a lie is that it also attributes motive, the intent to deceive. Words such as "false" "error" "wrong" do not attribute motive.

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

117 posted on 01/17/2012 9:30:15 AM PST by Religion Moderator
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To: Religion Moderator

I most respectfully disagree. To take another posters quote and write it shows what they believe is not making it personal.

This is the post in question.

I had written “The doctrine of Alter Christi is that the priest when adminstering the Sacraments is acting in the person of Christ”

Dr E responded with “Blasphemy.”

Therefore Dr. E believes this doctrine is blasphemous.

SO it is not an opinion or making it personal when I write Dr E believes the Catholic doctrine of Persona/Alter Christi is blasphemous. It is a statement of fact based on what she herself posted.

I edited my other post to remove any reference to lying.


118 posted on 01/17/2012 10:26:46 AM PST by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: Religion Moderator; Dr. Eckleburg

PS. I would assume Dr. E disagrees with any doctrine she finds to be blasphemous. It has nothing to do with motive but everything to do with her faith. There well may be other reasons but in the context of this discussion she disagrees with the doctrine because it is blasphemous. Those are her words not mine.

Had Dr. Eckleburg not written “blasphemous” and I had simply assumed that was her reason, yes I would have been mind reading.


119 posted on 01/17/2012 10:31:09 AM PST by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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