My name is not “Don Matzat” and I would NEVER be a “puveyor of prophetical pap”. Perhaps. Perhaps, not. In any event quotation marks are helpful if you are actually quoting someone, not yourself -- especially when one chooses to post a narrative written in the first person.
It's pretty obvious to me why one would prefer to distance themselves from a dismal narrative admission like that.
Your personal page contains some sloppy scholarship as well -- I refer to your letter written to Dr. D. James Kennedy, and the mis-attribution in which you chose to engage with the link labeled: "Astrophysicist writes Dr.James Kennedy. (Response below his letter)."
So, "Matchett-PI" in this example again you post your link written in the first person (are you now NOT supposed to be some presumed "Astrophysicist" named, "Chris some-one-or other"?) or in spite of all the first person narrative on this page shall we now just assume you are somebody else?
As I was saying, you labeled your link to say, "...(Response below his letter)," yet Kennedy didn't respond to you at all, now did he? Or, if in fact he did write you back, you simplistically failed to post his reply.
I don't care what academic achievement you might ever claim you had. That's just sloppy scholarship any way you slice it.
On the contrary—I EXPOSE “prophetical pap” for what it is.
You haven't exposed anything or anyone else here, but yourself and some sloppy scholarship to go along with it.
One is not surprised to see continuing sloppiness in your posting habits on this thread, as well.
Kind of sad, actually -- I'd have expected better scholarship from someone, who, to his credit, appears to know something about Calvinism and appears to have at least some passing appreciation for how its principles informed the signers of our nation's founding documents.
“Your personal page contains some sloppy scholarship as well...” ~ Agamemnon
Well, we can’t have that, can we? bttt :)
Click my screen name and scroll to the bottom of the page to read the disclaimer I just now added.
Disclaimer: FReeper “Agamemnon” has complained about the “sloppy” way I have presented these postings on my profile page. **Because many of the people I quote speak in the first person, he is unsure if I am either Alan Bellows, Prof. Robert Harris, Phillip R. Johnson, Gregory Koukl, James Freeman, John G. Reisinger, J.P.Holding, Christopher M. Sharp, or an unnamed employee of James Kennedy. (I think I’ve named them all). In order to address his, and any others’) concerns, I want to make it clear that I am not any of those people named above. Since Jim Robinson knows me personally, he can attest to it. :) Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/~matchettpi/index
**Name references:
Written in the first person: “I have revised that phrasing to “absurdly improbable.”
Unskilled and Unaware of It by Alan Bellows
http://www.damninteresting.com/unskilled-and-unaware-of-it
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Written in the first person: “Here is a collection of materials I used when teaching a college-level course on Critical Thinking.”
What is Critical Thinking - or How do I acquire “true” knowledge?
Critical Thinking Materials by Prof. Robert Harris
http://www.virtualsalt.com/think/
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Written in the first person: “I’m troubled when terms like ..”
the law of contradiction by Phillip R. Johnson.
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/lawofcon.htm
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Written in the first person: “The reason I say I’m not sure why is because ..”
America’s Unchristian Beginnings? ©1995 by Gregory Koukl
http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5097
Written in the first person: “I think the answer depends entirely on ..”
“...Thomas Payne and Ethan Allen, for example, were in no- wise intellectual architects of the Constitution. Rather, they were firebrands of the Revolution. Was that important? Sure, they made an important contribution, but they weren’t Founding Fathers. Period. ...” America’s Unchristian Beginnings? ©1995 by Gregory Koukl http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5097
Written in the first person: “My question is, how do you..”
Star Light & the Age of the Universe - by Gregory Koukl
http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5639
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Written in the first person: “One of my favorites includes this quotation from 1774..”
The reason why “We The People” are in charge
Thomas Jefferson, religious freak” by James Freeman - USA Today July 10, 2000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1454702/posts?page=66#66
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Written in the first person: “Now I am aware that many have lost their taste for historic confirmation of the message they declare, but this is only because they do not like the company they are forced to keep as they walk back into time”
Boiled down to their essence, there are only two religions in the whole world.. Everyone, including atheists, belong to one or the other.
by John G. Reisinger http://www.the-highway.com/2religions.html
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Written in the first person: “I will omit, however, such things as Chapter I where ..”
A Bigger Paine in the Posterior Thomas Paine’s “The Age of Reason” Dissected
By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org) http://www.tektonics.org/lp/painet02.html
Written in the first person: “These myths I believe cause harm to the church..”
Leading Christian Myths By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org)
http://www.tektonics.org/af/christianmyths.html
Written in the first person: “I have long since come to a conclusion ..”
Why Bible Critics Do Not Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt
By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org) http://www.tektonics.org/af/calcon.html
Written in the first person: “whom I debated on the issue of Jesus’ existence at..”
Atheist Frank Zindler’s “The Real Bible: Who’s Got It?” Critiqued February 20, 2005
By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org) http://www.tektonics.org/uz/zindler02.html
Written in the first person: “Like you I am a Christian, and like you I...”
Astrophysicist writes Dr.James Kennedy. (Response below his letter)
By Christopher M. Sharp http://csharp.com/kennedy.html
Response by An Employee Written in the first person: “It is my opinion that you are correct..”
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PS: I’m curious. Out of all those people named in my disclaimer above who speak in the first person, what is really bothering you about person who wrote the letter to Kennedy and his employee’s reply? :)