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Theoden's point about the reposting of Catholic Caucus threads gives me pause about the wisdom of keeping doctrinal and interpretive issues entirely within the caucus. But the question was put as a "once a month" type of post and, on that basis, given that we will not be silencing any discussion, I can go along with it.

I think we all need to face up to the fact that many articulate and well-formed responses to Protestant critiques of Catholic theology are simply ignored on this board and the same misconceptions, though answered many times to the very posters who continue to put them up, are perpetrated continuously without attention to dialogue. I view this as a debating tactic designed to show that they are simply capable of "posting something" rather than engaging in a true back-and-forth discussion, which makes so much of the effort we expend fruitless.

markomalley; I know you're trying to find a solution to this problem, and yes I do see it, but the real underlying problem from my viewpoint is a lack of willingness to respond to what is posted rather than an ability or an inability to control the debate. If people just want to "talk at" us rather than "talk to" us, we're never going to be able to change their ways.

Other than that, I am generally an optimist about human nature. LOL!

I view this as a debating tactic designed to show that they are simply capable of "posting something" rather than engaging in a true back-and-forth discussion, which makes so much of the effort we expend fruitless.

I agree with you. I have noticed that within the last year and a half the number of Protestant posts have increased many times over. I would estimate that half of these posts are devotional and genuinely doctrinal in nature, but the other half are purposely anti-Catholic.

Case in point, all of the posts and reposts about abusive Priests, the actions of people who say they act in the name of the Church or that they are "Catholic", but are contrary to Church doctrine, etc... It is an aggressive "ad-hominum" campaign against the Catholic Church perpetuated by a very few pseudo intellectuals. They will believe what they want to believe, and they have no interest whatsoever in finding out the truth of what we as Catholics believe. It is not our problem that their Theology is largely based off of how not Catholic they are. They can tell St. Peter, and our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ face to face what they think of his pilgrim Church on Earth.