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To: D-fendr
Blockquotes are your friend - as is reading the portions of the conversation you are joining in - particularly before making assumptions leading to accusations.

I really have no interest in argument for argument sake.

Nor in properly citing direct quotations.

Citing Direct Quotations

2,343 posted on 04/20/2011 9:53:34 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE
Sheesh, more distraction - again.

Text in blockquotes is your clue that it is a quotation. A blockquote means "quoting here..."

A block quotation (also known as a long quotation or extract) is a quotation in a written document, that set off from the main text as a paragraph, or block of text, and typically distinguished visually using indentation and a different typeface or smaller size quotation. (This is in contrast to a setting it off with quotation marks in a run-in quote.) Block quotations are used for the long quotation. The Chicago Manual of Style recommends using a block quotation when extracted text is 100 words or more, or at least eight lines.
- Source.
If you had known this, you would know that I was quoting the article which I linked to in reply to the original poster, blockquoted and referred to a second time and blockquoted and referred to you as a section a third time.

Or, had you read the discussion before you jumped in, you would also have known it.

You certainly know it now.

If you wish to argue just to argue, I suggest you start by explaining why your church welcomes self-proclaimed pagans while you criticize Church dogma concerning Mary.

That argument would entertain me. This one doesn't.

2,375 posted on 04/20/2011 11:07:02 AM PDT by D-fendr
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