[Mad Dawg]

You don't get it.

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.

[restornu]

Considering the Catholic History of the church they have survived a lot of wounds down through the ages and still are bigger than any Protestant movement and much more organized.

I have run into many of the Catholic faith those who are practicing it have the Spirit of the Lord with them.

I can not in all honesty say I observed that in other mainstream faiths.

I know there are exceptions to the rule but seeing the behavior of the FR fanatic are so abusive makes it very hard to view this objectively.

The perfidious wondering roughs agenda is too keep visitors or lurker at the gate filled with bias hype that what ever you stand for has alreday been tainted.

It called everyone should have a voice!

even if their faith is to practiced scorch earth

[trisham]

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.

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Well said.