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To: Religion Moderator
I was responding to his statement, which rejected my arguments as "propaganda" of "Latin purists". This is derogatory, and snide if you do not realize it, attacking my motives. See his statement quoted below:

Sure I can, since I don't buy the arguments put forth as "very solid reasons", but propaganda put forth by a bunch of "Latin purists" whose only goal is to go back to the Tridentine Mass.

61 posted on 04/25/2006 10:21:31 AM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: murphE
I am making a point all across the Religion Forum that we can have great, continuing debates (and fewer abuse reports) by not making the issues personal.

The problem was in the phrasing of the first sentence of your post:

Ah, your true disposition revealed, not that of an inquiring soul, genuinely seeking to understand another's view, but that of a modernist with a hatred for "Latin purists". You're in good company here.

It could have been phrased without being personal, for instance:

Modernists with a hatred for "Latin purists" do not seek to understand another's view.

See the difference?
62 posted on 04/25/2006 10:38:54 AM PDT by Religion Moderator
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