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To: Dr. Eckleburg
I’ve studied monasticism.

If you had, you'd realize your pronouncements on it, even your description of what it is and what monastics do is false. You call blind and useless some of the greatest contributors to growth and history of Christianity. It's just ignorant.

When someone keeps proclaiming something that shows their ignorance of the subject, it does no good to proclaim it again or excuse it again.

This goes for monastics and for "what Rome teaches" alike.

It only illustrates a willful ignorance and then a pride in willful ignorance.

There's no credibility. There's no there there in discussion. It's not possible to have a discussion with someone who is just lobbing the same grenades over and over and hoping to injure somebody somewhere, this time.

7,375 posted on 09/28/2010 7:30:36 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

Long ago I mentioned there was a point to monasteries centuries ago. Before the printing press, bibles were copied and that is good.

What do you think is the necessity for monasteries today (since this discussion began with the contemporary, Mother Teresa?)


7,382 posted on 09/28/2010 7:45:59 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: D-fendr
hoping to injure

Attributing motive to another Freeper is a form of "making it personal."

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

7,386 posted on 09/28/2010 7:50:44 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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