>>RC’s beat us about the head and shoulders with fiercely provocative baiting threads rather rotinely.<<
So turn the other cheek.
Actually, in my thread analysis, I may be able to get some statistics on that score.
My gut raw impression is that I turn the other cheek far far far more than a list of RC’s do.
But, as St Paul demonstrated, there’s a time when one insists that the officials do not get away with slinking one out the back door in the middle of the night but they must come and escort one out the front door in broad daylight.
On most days . . . I probably get a handful to a dozen often very mean-spirited personal assaults from RC’s . . . usually without even a warning delivered to them. And I don’t respond remotely in kind, if at all.
How many personal assaults do you think I’d get away with?
It boggles my mind . . .
The RM has mentioned the example of the RC’s outraged over some of us Prottys use of “Roman” in “Roman Catholic.”
Yet within a few short posts of that outrage, an RC had labeled a Protty a tool, son or stooge or some such
OF SATAN
and the Protty didn’t flinch, bat an eye or even think it worth noticing much at all, if at all.
I have yet to see ANY EVIDENCE THAT ANY RC has learned anything from that OUTRAGEOUSLY STARK DIFFERENCE between the chronic habits of the two camps.
Very telling.
Why? So we can get slapped on that one, too? LOL.