It MAY be a lie. It MAY be the poster is sincerely in error. Or it MAY be the poster uses somewhat different definitions, or has a different interpretation of events than you do.
In general you are right, but in this instance the ...."confabulation" has been refuted and substantiated many, many times in multiple posts. Once corrected the substance of the statement and motive become explicit. In spite of the limited vocabulary permitted a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Liberals and Conservatives have their own sets of facts, e.g. 2nd amendment, global warming. Liberals do not have a voice on this forum and so their set of facts are never aired.
But in various debates among conservatives here on Free Republic, each side may also have its own set of facts. Just look at any civil war thread or any creation v evolution thread.
Either side would gladly call the other side liars. And off the Religion Forum, they sometimes do and posters get into trouble, threads get pulled or banished to the smoky backroom.
That is not tolerable here on the Religion Forum where each side - sometimes by fiat of religious authority - have a different and hardened set of facts.
Therefore I require that RF posters not call each other liars or otherwise attribute motives, read minds or turn threads into personal battlegrounds.
Just because you say something is so is not substantiation...And when you use the writings of one of your church fathers that very well could be forged, that as well is not substantiation...
MOST PROTTY’S DON’T ACCEPT
Most Roman Catholic/Vatican et al “proofs” as remotely valid, authentic, relevant etc.