You said: we are obligated in behalf of the lurkers to keep responding with the truth . . . which is rather unchanging.
*snicker*...you can’t be referring to the unbroken chain of chaos called protestant exegesis can you?
Catholics, with their sneaky use of such things as reason, present a serious danger to lurkers. Catholics are so dangerous that they cannot be engaged on the grounds of reason.
Instead there MUST be a kind of mock combat, a play, something fundamentally dishonest and unreal, in which Catholics and their arguments are not addressed but called names and mocked. If this were not done, the vicious, evil, repulsive, Catholics, with their notorious masochism and anxiety about sex might lure unsuspecting lurkers into their clutches.
Consequently, we don't even have to address the actual dogma of the Church. In general we should avoid any thoughtful engagement with them. Reason is not our strong suit after all, but we excel at abuse, mockery, and especially at the kind of endurance required to make the same baseless charges and mockeries over and over again.
But do not think for a minute that we do this with any cooperation among ourselves or with any malice in our hearts. We are only doing it for the poor lurkers, who without our constant vigilance might actually think about what the Catholics say.
Like Screwtape, we glorify noise, especially because it hinders thought. If the lurkers ever started thinking about what the Catholics say, if we ever let up in our efforts, why, well, who knows what might happen. They might get a clear view of the issues, and that could lead anywhere!
So we must keep up the mockery, the repetition, the same old charges and never give the lurkers a chance to think.
We're doing it for the children, I mean the lurkers.